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Rep. Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress at a news conference after visiting immigrant detention facilities in San Diego, Calif., June 18, 2018. Anger about family separation is universal, but as the anti-Trump furor becomes an appeal for what amounts to open borders, any political advantage for Democrats from the controversy looks like a mirage.
What's happening: Trump's zero-tolerance policy led to family separations at the border. He signed an executive order to address this, but it's unclear what happens to the more than 2,000 kids who have been separated.
As soon as the Trump administration adopted a "zero-tolerance" policy requiring law enforcement to prosecute all immigrants who crossed the border illegally, it became clear that officials weren't prepared to deal with the crush of kids who would find themselves under their supervision.
Nor were they able to implement the policy in a humane way. Family separation is callous and ineffective, but its existence doesn't excuse the ginned-up moral panic, the pious grandstanding, or the historically illiterate associations to Nazi death camps unleashed by its critics.
Countless Americans are expressing outrage at the separation of almost 2,000 children from their parents who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in a recent six-week period.
President Donald Trump reaches out to embrace his family at his inauguration Jan. 20, 2017. Much has been written about Donald Trump as a politician and as a businessman, but a new book by Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox looks at the president through a different lens: as the head of a family.
Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations. Public defenders to border agents: Where are the immigrant children? Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations.
President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families. "We are pleased that the president is calling a halt to his inhumane and heartless policy of separating parents from their children," said Peter Schey, the lawyer in a lawsuit that resulted in a key agreement governing the treatment of migrant children in detention called the Flores settlement.
Trump Reverses Course, Signs Order To Keep Families Together President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together. Hearing For Parents In 'House Of Horrors' Case Reveals Daughter's 911 Call A 17-year-old girl who had just escaped her home of horrors called police dispatchers and revealed in a high-pitched voice the abuse that had gone on for years.
Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the border since the implementation of a zero-tolerance policy in which anyone caught entering the U.S. illegally is criminally prosecuted. "This policy is relatively new," said Steven Wagner, an acting assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services "We're still working through the experience of reunifying kids with their parents after adjudication."
Staten Island Republican congressional candidate Michael Grimm said Tuesday that the cries of children being taken away from their parents at the border are no worse than the sobs of kids being dropped off at daycare. The convicted tax cheat , running for his old congressional seat, said Americans shouldn't put too much stock into recordings recently released of children sobbing at immigration shelters after they'd been taken from their parents at the border.
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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.
Furious backlash as ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says 'WOMP, WOMP' about 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome getting separated from her mother at the border 'If kids don't eat in peace, YOU don't eat in peace!' DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is driven out of MEXICAN eatery by furious protesters after defending zero-tolerance border policy REVEALED: Border guards are sending BABIES and toddlers to 'tender age' immigrant detention centers after being separated from their mothers Trump envoy Nikki Haley announces America is withdrawing from U.N. Human Rights Council - one day after its chief slammed White House for separating immigrant children from their parents The best positions in bed revealed: Why curling up when you sleep is ruining your health - and which posture will get you a great night's rest AND help with your digestion Star and stripes! Michelle Obama steps out ... (more)
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.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens to an answer to his question of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray testify during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to examine Horowitz's report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Monday, June 18, 2018 in Washington.
Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the Trump administration's policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, with the focus shifting on a new plan to keep children in detention longer than now permitted - but with their parents. House GOP leaders are revising their legislation amid a public outcry over President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" approach to illegal crossings.
Customs and Border Protection photo shows intake of illegal border crossers by US Border Patrol agents at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas An innocuous, one-page pamphlet with silhouettes of adults holding hands with children provides a seemingly simple step-by-step guide for parents separated from their children after crossing the border. The information, in both Spanish and English, includes 1-800 numbers and email addresses for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's call center and the Office of Refugee Resettlement's "Parent Line."
On Father's Day, hundreds of protesters descended on a Texas border outpost where a new tent city has been erected to detain immigrant children, according to NPR. The Trump administration announced the new facility would be opening in Tornillo, Texas - just outside of El Paso - last Thursday.
Senator Susan Collins refuses to pick a side on the Trump/Miller "tearing kids away from their asylum-seeking parents and placing them in concentration like detention centers" debate. In this clip, she is pseudo-defending the Trump policy...while also kind of not.