Trump signs off on plan to end his family separation policy

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Trump signs off on plan to end his family separation policy

 

President Donald Trump signed on Wednesday an executive order which he claims will keep prospective immigrant families together.

 

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President Donald Trump, under pressure from angry members of both his own party as well as his own family, signed on Wednesday an executive order that is meant to keep families together at the border and so halting a policy he instituted earlier this year.

 

Trump did not detail what he signed, but an unnamed administration official claimed that an executive order had been drafted by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to temporarily stop separating children from the parents of people detained at the border.

 

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No copy of the purported executive order was contemporaneously released, however.

 

Additionally, President Trump doubled down on his hard-line stance on immigration, saying that he “likes to be strong” and that migrants were “using the children as a ticket to get into” the United States.

 

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Trump further announced that he had canceled a congressional picnic that had been scheduled for Thursday, saying the timing “just didn’t feel right.”

 

Following Trump’s remarks on Wednesday, roughly two dozen House Republicans headed to the White House to discuss recent events out behind the main Secret Service guard shed.

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