BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his Cabinet are refusing to publicly back down from their intensely controversial practice of separating migrant families at the border, despite pressure from fellow Republicans to ease up on what critics are calling a heartless policy…Trump hit back at the criticism during a space policy event at the White House later on Monday [6-18-18], saying the family separations are ‘so sad’ and falsely stating that ‘we’re stuck with these horrible laws…’ Meanwhile, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen fiercely defended the child separation policy on Monday while delivering speeches at the National Sheriffs’ Association‘s annual conference in New Orleans…The defiant posture comes amid a torrent of criticism as stories and images have emerged of young children being ripped from their immigrant parents’ arms and put in detention facilities akin to prisons.”
-Louis Nelson, “Defiant Trump refuses to back off migrant family separations,” Politico, June 18, 2018 6:22 pm