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Trump team cannot get its story straight on separating migrant families
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post
Posted: June 25th, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2...
We do not have a policy of separating families at the border, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted. President Trumps top domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, was quoted in Sundays 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 Trumps 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. Former first lady Laura Bush compares whats happening to Japanese internment: I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart. Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. People on all sides agree that our immigration system isnt working, but the injustice of zero tolerance is not the answer.
Note: On June 20th, Trump signed an executive order intended to keep families of immigrant detainees together, though the fate of the more than 2,300 children already separated is not clear. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing government corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.
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