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As a crisis of migrant children separated from their families provoked national outrage, President Donald Trump said he was powerless to act through an executive order. Five days later, he did just that.
Maybe there are reasons to hope that this nightmare has awakened some Republicans to the fact that they can actually stand up to the president. President Donald Trump gestures as he signs a "Space Policy Directive" during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watches.
President Donald Trump, flanked by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, left, and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, answers a question on Aug. 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. President Donald Trump, flanked by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, left, and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, answers a question on Aug. 11, 2017, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. The White House on Thursday will propose merging the Education and Labor departments into one federal agency, the centerpiece of a plan to remake a bureaucracy that President Donald Trump and his supporters consider too big and bloated, according to an administration official familiar with the plan.
Veteran Republican campaign strategist Steve Schmidt said Wednesday he is renouncing the GOP - in part because of what he calls President Donald Trump's unethical and corrupt behavior, but more because the party's leadership in Congress has failed to hold Trump to account. "What we've seen is the complete and total corruption of the Republican Party among its elected officials," Schmidt, senior strategist for 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, told The Associated Press.
Hours after abruptly reversing himself to end the forced separations of migrant families, President Donald Trump returned to the warm embrace of his supporters at a raucous rally Wednesday to fiercely defend his hard-line immigration policies while unleashing a torrent of grievances about the media and those investigating him. Trump downplayed the crisis that has threatened to envelop the White House amid days of heart-wrenching images of children being pulled from their immigrant parents along the nation's southern border.
An official with Health and Human Services says the more than 2,300 children separated from their parents at the border as a result of a zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings won't be immediately reunited with their families. Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the department's Administration for Children and Families, says their cases will proceed through the system.
The Republican and Democratic senators leading an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections joined in criticism of President Barack Obama's administration for failing to do more to stop the meddling. Republican Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said at a hearing Wednesday that Obama administration officials have made clear they were operating "without a playbook" against a new threat with an undefined set of rules.
President Trump's new immigration policy now depends on either the courts or Congress overturning a 2015 ruling that the administration says forced family separations. That obscure 2015 ruling, the so-called "Flores settlement," is now the crux of the immigration debate, with Mr. Trump on Wednesday ordering his attorney general to ask the court to revise the agreement, and the president also pleading with Congress to step in and overturn it by law.
President Donald Trump talks to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Feb. 14, 2017, at the White House. Trump's administration will propose mergin the Education Department with the Department of Labor.
An official with Health and Human Services says the more than 2,300 children separated from their parents at the border as a result of a zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings won't be immediately reunited with their families. Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the department's Administration for Children and Families, says their cases will proceed through the system.
In this Jan. 2, 2018 file photo, Peter Fonda presents the Desert Palm achievement award at the 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival in Palm Springs, Calif. Fonda has apologized for a late-night Twitter rant that said 12-year-old Barron Trump should be ripped from "his mother's arms and put in a cage with pedophiles."
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending the process of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the US border illegally. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending the process of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the US border illegally.
In a rare retreat amid continued outrage about his "zero tolerance" policy at the southern border, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to end the separation of immigrant families. His directive was expected to keep families together but in indefinite detention.
It's worse than you think. The travesty of separating children from their undocumented, migrant parents was less about cracking down as a policy than about Donald Trump's bet-winning.
Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his administration's policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border.
Fair or not, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will probably always be the face of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border. The brusque 46-year-old former Bush administration official this week became known as the Cabinet member who skewed the facts at a combative press conference in defense of President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy, and who convened a "working dinner" at a Mexican restaurant while audio of hysterical Spanish-speaking children circulated on social media.
Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending the process of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the U.S. border illegally. It was a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been insisting, wrongly, that his administration had no choice but to separate families apprehended at the border because of federal law and a court decision.
President Donald Trump said he would be signing an executive order later Wednesday that would end the process of separating children from families after they are detained crossing the border illegally. "We want to keep families together.
President Donald Trump , under growing pressure to act unilaterally to address the immigration crisis, Wednesday signed an exeutive order that he said would keep immigrant families at the border together. Add Immigration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Immigration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.