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They argue they don't like the policy, but that their hands are tied - and instead are pointing fingers at Congress to "fix" it. There may be good reason for that - the policy is unpopular.
WEBVTT [CHANTING] VICK ACROSS CALIFORNIA, PASSIONATELY DIVIDED RESPONSES OVER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY OF SEPARATING FAMILIES ACCUSED OF CROSSING THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. THE RESCUE BRIGADE OF GRANDPARENTS DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE RIO COSUMNES CORRECTIONAL CENTER, ELK GROVE'S ICE DETENTION FACILITY.
Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border , saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems. Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents "contrary to our Catholic values" and "immoral".
After President Trump's latest tweets, there should be no doubts about it: His escalating tirades against undocumented immigrants have nothing to do with immigration and everything with exploiting the racial anxieties of people who want America to be a whiter country. Amid the scandal over Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their asylum-seeking parents and putting unaccompanied minors in cages - a policy he ended by executive order Wednesday, under pressure - the president tweeted Tuesday that immigrants "infest" this country, as if they were animals carrying infectious diseases.
Measure would prohibit federal agencies from removing a child without legal immigration status from parent or legal guardian within 100 miles of border Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., stand together as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a 2016 campaign event in Everett. Senate Democrats are joining together to keep families together.
President Donald Trump implored anxious House Republicans to fix the nation's broken immigration system but did not offer a clear path forward amid the growing uproar over his administration's decision to separate migrant families at the border.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.>> The governors of multiple East Coast states have announced that they will not deploy National Guard resources near the U.S.-Mexico border, a largely symbolic but politically significant rejection of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that has resulted in children being separated from their families. Gov. John Carney rejected the White House's request to send National Guard troops to the United States' southwest border.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before a House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform joint hearing on'Oversight of the FBI and DOJ Actions in Advance of the 2016 Election', on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018.
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Members of the Arizona National Guard at the Papago Park Military Reservation in Phoenix. Arizona deployed its first 225 National Guard members to the Mexican border in April.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, walks with President Donald Trump as they head to a meeting of House Republicans to discuss a GOP immigration bill at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/J.
"The system has been broken for many years, the immigration system, it has been a really bad, bad system. Probably the worst anywhere in the world," he said before entering the meeting.
He's often presented himself -- occasionally with complications -- as one of the most 'anti-amnesty' members of Congress, so some political observers are expressing surprise that Ted Cruz is jumping into the fray and breaking with the president on this issue. There are three explanatory factors in the mix here, I think, and two are obvious.
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An undocumented immigrant family from Guatemala talks to a volunteer after their arrival to Announciation House, an organisation that provides shelter to immigrants and refugees, in El Paso, U.S. January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo /File Photo Joining a chorus of critics as diverse as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and former First Ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray denounced President Donald Trump's immigration policy, which has resulted in 2,000 kids being forcibly separated from their families - including a little girl with Down's syndrome whose father is a legal U.S. resident.
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The Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies are predicated, in part, upon the notion that immigrants who are in the country illegally represent a threat to public safety. The White House, for instance, has sent out regular email blasts to reporters with alarmist accounts of crime committed by undocumented immigrants.
The first is superstition. Like a baseball fan who is loath to change his lucky socks, winning candidates are often reluctant to do anything different from what helped them win the last time around.
President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policies on immigration have spurred a contentious and controversial debate across the country. Because of that, there is plenty of misinformation about the immigration rules and laws floating around the internet.
The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2018. Calls are mounting on Capitol Hill for the Trump administration to end the separation of families at the southern border ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss legislation.