Senior Republicans are attacking Trump's policy of separating families at the US border - here's how they're turning on the President

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A four-year-old boy weeps in the arms of a family member as they are apprehended by border patrol agents near McAllen, Texas, on May 2, 2018.

• Thousands of children have been separated from their family members at the US-Mexico border.
• The practice has been part of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy on immigration.
• It has enraged the public, Democrats - and now, influential Republicans as well.
• Scroll down to see what some of the Republicans have said.

The Trump administration has been under fire over the past few weeks for its policy of separating children from their parents, which came as part of its "zero-tolerance policy" on border immigration.

Recent photos have shown children weeping in the arms of family members before being separated, climbing over barbed wire fences alone, and being kept in cages.

Trump has argued that the family separations were the result of "following laws, very simply, that were given to us and forced upon us by Democrats." Internal documents, however, have shown that it was the Trump administration that put out the order to do so.

Public outrage over the policy has become so heated that even influential Republicans have spoken against it.

Take a look at what some of them have said: