BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic lawmakers joined protesters outside immigration detention facilities in New Jersey and Texas on Sunday [6-17-18] for Father’s Day demonstrations against the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border…The events came as news stories highlighting the family separations intensified political pressure on the White House, even from some of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans. U.S. officials said on Friday [6-15-18] that nearly 2,000 children were separated from adults at the border between mid-April and the end of May. In May, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a ‘zero tolerance’ policy in which all those apprehended entering the United States illegally, including those seeking asylum, would be criminally charged, which generally leads to children being separated from their parents. Administration officials have defended the tactic as necessary to secure the border and suggested it would act as a deterrent to illegal immigration.”
-Joseph Ax, “Democrats, activists rally against Trump’s family separation policy,” Reuters, June 18, 2018 2:00 pm