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Trump Administration Continues Cruel Family Separation Policy
The deadline to reunite young children with their families came and went last week as the Trump administration continues to make abundantly clear that they have no plan to end the family separation crisis. This is simply unacceptable. Families belong together, and Democrats won’t rest until President Trump ends his cruel attacks on immigrant families. See more below:
For parents who were separated from their children, the pain can be unbearable and irreparable:
Los Angeles Times: “While some children were placed with parents Tuesday, many more families remain separated, not knowing when they would see one another again. Continue reading “Trump Administration Continues Cruel Family Separation Policy”
Reliable Source How Melania Trump’s jacket choice overtook her visit to the Texas border shelters
The following article by Emily Heil was posted on the Washington Post website June 21, 2018:
First lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that caused a stir on social media as she boarded a plane to Texas on June 21 for a border visit. (The Washington Post)
Melania Trump took a surprise trip to Texas to speak to children and officials at a shelter for migrant children. But her message and the carefully crafted visuals showing a first lady rushing to the scene of a crisis touching the lives of children were soon obliterated by other words and images.
“I’m here to learn about your facility,” Trump said Thursday afternoon, telling the people who run the facility that she wanted to know how she could “help these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible.” Continue reading “Reliable Source How Melania Trump’s jacket choice overtook her visit to the Texas border shelters”
THE LATEST: Trump Admin Keeps Thousands Of Children Separated From Their Families
The Trump administration failed to meet a deadline to reunite young children with their families, and the thousands of children remain separated from their families. As parents still don’t know when they will see their children again, the Trump administration is already preparing for another surge in children detentions.
The Trump administration failed to meet a court-imposed deadline to reunify young children with their families, as the fates of thousands more remain in limbo.
CNN: “The Trump administration was only able to reunite fewer than half of the eligible separated migrant families in its care by a court-ordered deadline Tuesday — as the fates of thousands more remain in limbo.”
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Ivanka Trump Finally Speaks About Separating Immigrant Families — And It’s Totally Absurd
The following article by Cody Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet website June 20, 2018:
The president’s daughter has made family policy her defining issue.
Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and top White House adviser, remained curiously silent as the crisis surrounding the administration’s policy of separating immigrant families swelled, despite her previous stance as an advocate for family policy.
But after President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing the issue — an act he had said just days before was impossible — the first daughter finally spoke publicly.
“Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border,” she wrote on Twitter. “Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families.” Continue reading “Ivanka Trump Finally Speaks About Separating Immigrant Families — And It’s Totally Absurd”
The Trump administration changed its story on family separation no fewer than 14 times before ending the policy
The following article by JM Rieger was posted on the Washington Post website June 20, 2018:
The Trump administration changed its story on immigrant family separation no fewer than 14 times in one week. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
First it was a deterrent. Then it wasn’t.
It was a new Justice Department policy. Then it wasn’t.
The Trump administration was simply following the law. Then it said separations weren’t required by law. Continue reading “The Trump administration changed its story on family separation no fewer than 14 times before ending the policy”
Trump team cannot get its story straight on separating migrant families
The following article by James Hohmann with Branne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website June 18, 2018:
THE BIG IDEA: “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted last night. “Period.”
This formulation is striking because President Trump’s top domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, was quoted in Sunday’s New York Times touting the crackdown. “It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry,” he said. “Period.”
DHS announced last week that around 2,000 children have been taken from their families during the six weeks since the policy went into effect, and officials acknowledge the number may be even higher.
More than a month after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Trump’s new “zero tolerance” policy to great fanfare, members of the administration continue to struggle with how to talk about it – alternating between defending the initiative as a necessary deterrent, distancing themselves, blaming Democrats, trying to use it as leverage for negotiations with Congress or denying that it exists at all.
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