BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/IVANKA: “President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump came out Thursday [8-2-18] against the family separations that resulted from her father’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigration, calling them a ‘low point’ of her White House tenure thus far…The Trump administration last week reunited at least 1,442 children with their parents, though 2,551 children were identified as separated from a parent at the border. An additional 378 were connected with parents or sponsors in the U.S. or turned 18 while in custody. Undocumented migrant children and parents had been separated at the southern border as a result of a Trump administration policy mandating that all people crossing the border illegally be referred for criminal prosecution. Under withering criticism over the policy, the president later signed an executive order to end the practice. Ivanka Trump has often been called a champion for children and parents due to her involvement and advocacy for paid-family leave. The president’s daughter, however, was mum on commenting about the separations as they were ongoing.”
–Rebessa Morin, “Ivanka Trump on family separation: ‘That was a low point for me’,” Politico, August 2, 2018 10:14 am