Michael Avenatti offers legal assistance to immigrant parents separated from their kids

Stormy Daniels' attorney has room for more clients, he announced Sunday on Twitter, specifically families separated at the border.

"If anyone knows of a parent that has had their child taken from them at the border and not returned, please have them contact me as I am entering this fight," he said. "This outrageous conduct must be brought to an immediate end." The Trump administration is arresting adults caught crossing the border illegally and charging them with federal crimes, leading to their children being taken from them and placed in government custody.

Avenatti posted his offer in response to a photo of Saturday's New York Daily News cover showing a crying 2-year-old girl from Honduras at the border, and also shared a message for President Trump's senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller. "Congrats, the separation policy that you sold to your boss Mr. Trump will result in images that will crater you both," he tweeted. "We will ensure you will never escape them. In your fascist zeal, you forgot that mothers are mothers first, regardless of their politics."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.