BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump may not admit it, but practically speaking, his administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ border strategy is dead. Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that reality at a meeting Thursday [6-21-18] afternoon, according to a former department official with knowledge of the meeting…That same message was delivered by Brandon Judd, president of a union for Border Patrol agents, who told CNN Thursday that the executive order Trump signed Wednesday requiring families caught at the border to be detained together simply left his agency no choice. ‘We’re going to have to release them,’ he said. Homeland Security and Justice Department officials did not respond to requests for comment. But the policy slammed into a series of brick walls that made it all but impossible to fully enforce on the ground — insufficient space for incarcerating the hundreds of families crossing the border, strict legal limits on how migrant children can be detained and political backlash against separating them from their parents.”
-Ted Hesson, “Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy is effectively dead,” Politico, June 22, 2018 6:34 pm