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reversing family separation policy
Thursday, June 21, 2018 –
6:54am
Donald Trump has issued a new executive order reversing his
policy of taking children from illegal immigrants and holding them
in detention centres.
The executive order promises to “keep families together” after
days of international outrage over the treatment of undocumented
children arriving in the US.
It was “a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been lying in
saying that his administration had no choice but to separate
families apprehended at the border because of federal law and a
court decision”, says Fairfax Media.
He reportedly made the decision after he was shown photographs
of some of the detained children.
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“It’s about keeping families together while at the same time
being sure that we have a very powerful, very strong border, and
border security will be equal if not greater than previously,”
Trump said. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of
families being separated.”
However, the order does not appear to address the fate of the
reported 2,342 children separated from their families between 5 May
and 9 June.
Babies and other young children are being housed in three
“tender age” shelters, where lawyers and medics who have visited
the facilities saw “playrooms full of crying preschool children”,
The Guardian reports.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in April that the
Trump administration would be enacting a “zero tolerance” policy
for illegal immigrants, under which they would be jailed and
prosecuted.
“As children cannot legally be jailed with their parents, they
are kept in separate facilities,” says the BBC.
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