As a worldwide church dealing with many complex issues across the globe, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints promotes broad, foundational principles that have worldwide application:

• We follow Jesus Christ by loving our neighbors. The Savior taught that the meaning of “neighbor” includes all of God’s children, in all places, at all times.
• We recognize an ever-present need to strengthen families. Families are meant to be together. Forced separation of working parents from their children weakens families and damages society.
• We acknowledge that every nation has the right to enforce its laws and secure its borders. All persons subject to a nation’s laws are accountable for their acts in relation to them.

Public officials should create and administer laws that reflect the best of our aspirations as a just and caring society. Such laws will properly balance love for neighbors, family cohesion, and the observance of just and enforceable laws.

 

I full agree with every statement above.  Yes, it is true that the US has a right to enforce its law and secure it's borders.  The problem is congress has the ability to contradict it self.  Congress has passed a complex set of laws relating to immigration.  Including the ability to seek asylum. This means anyone who has entered the country can request a court to review their case and decide if they should be allowed to stay.  The number of judges to review theses cases is no where near the number we need.  This means that these individuals are legally allowed to stay in the country for years while awaiting their trial.  This is why a bill was proposed to increase funding for processing this claims. Republicans killed this bill.  This leaves the Biden administration with a law on the books(deport immigrants with out valid immigration claims), with out the funds to to enforce it.  This allows Republicans to complain that Biden doesn't believe in the rule of law, all while actually being the cause of the problem.

During the Trump administration of the church issued two separate statements condemning Trumps immigration policies.  The first statement issued in 2017 condemned the policy of banning Muslim refugees. The second statement issued in 2018 condemned the separation of immigrant families at the border.  I have seen many members of the church deny that this was happening, asserting that the brethren have been mislead by the media.  It is true that tho policy was short lived and Trump did rescind the policy two days after the church's statement. In his executive order rescinding the policy Trump blamed congress for his actions:

It is unfortunate that Congress's failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law.

I think it is important that we elect public leaders who will take responsibility for creating laws that reflect the best of aspirations as a just and caring society.  Vice President Harris is clearly the best candidate to do that.