7/4/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrants separated from their children after being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. at the Mexican border are being asked to choose between being deported alone or with their children. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started giving parents who have been given deportation orders a form laying out their options after a […]

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7/3/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How many immigrant families have been reunited since a judge ordered the US government to halt most family separations at the border? And how many kids from separated immigrant families are still in government custody? We don’t know, because officials aren’t saying. It’s been a week since they released a tally of […]

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7/3/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Monday [7-2-18] became the latest to rebuke the Trump administration for its immigration practices — this time ordering the administration not to deny asylum seekers potential release from detention. The lawsuit predates the administration’s now-reversed practice of separating families at the border, but the national outcry over the […]

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7/3/2018

BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How can the Democrats, who are weak on the Border and weak on Crime, do well in November. The people of our Country want and demand Safety and Security, while the Democrats are more interested in ripping apart and demeaning (and not properly funding) our great Law Enforcement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]

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7/2/2018

BORDER/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump reached out to Mexico’s new populist president-elect on Monday [7-2-18] in an early, but potentially short-lived, show of détente, saying the two leaders engaged in a ‘good conversation’ about border security and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The two countries remain locked in a heated dispute over the […]

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7/2/2018

BORDER/COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An order a federal judge issued Monday [7-3-18] requiring individualized decisions on whether some asylum-seekers can be released into the U.S. poses a new legal threat to President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on migrants crossing the border from Mexico. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg said there is strong evidence […]

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7/2/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal officials are struggling to reunite migrant children with their families despite a court deadline, and agencies do not have the resources or procedures to help thousands of children detained at the border back into the arms of their parents, according to a dozen current and former officials, advocates and experts. With […]

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6/28/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The State Department said children held in government facilities are at higher risk of psychological damage and should be separated from their families only as a ‘last resort.’ The finding, part of the agency’s Trafficking in Persons Report released Thursday [6-28-18], came as President Donald Trump seeks to quiet public furor […]

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6/27/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials said on Wednesday [6-27-18] that it would be difficult to comply with the timetable in a federal court order requiring the reunification of migrant children and parents who were separated at the border. Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Federal District Court in San Diego issued a preliminary injunction […]

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6/27/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California late Tuesday [6-26-18] ordered a halt to most family separations at the US border and the reunification of all families that have been separated in the first major rebuke to the Trump administration during ongoing furor over family separations at the border. The court order specifically requires […]

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6/27/2018

BORDER/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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6/27/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DREAMERS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a ‘compromise’ immigration bill on Wednesday [6-27-18], as expected, that would have addressed the crisis of families being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. The House could vote next month on a narrower measure that is being developed and would focus specifically on the family […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction late Tuesday [6-26-18] temporarily stopping the Trump administration from separating children from their parents at the border and ordered that all families already separated be reunited within 30 days. Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Federal District Court in San Diego said children […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The pace of arrests on the U.S.-Mexico border dropped in June, according to a preliminary government estimate — potentially signaling that the Trump administration’s controversial ‘zero tolerance’ policy discouraged migrants from traveling north. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is projected to arrest roughly 37,000 people at the border in June, based […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday [6-26-18] called immigration enforcement ‘a decisive issue for our time,’ maintaining a hard line on illegal border crossings a day after a key Department of Homeland Security official declared the administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy effectively dead…He went on to accuse Democrats and members of the media […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, on the first day of a Latin America trip, took President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown on a roadshow, urging countries in the region to rein in the flow of migrants to the U.S. or face consequences…In his remarks with Mr. Pence, Mr. Temer expressed his country’s concern […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday [6-26-18] over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was illusory. In a complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Seattle, 17 states and the District of […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The two Honduran mothers didn’t run when the Border Patrol agents found them along a muddy border road Monday [6-25-18], near where Mexico ends and the U.S. begins. The suspected smuggler who guided the women, their children and two teenage boys, had fled back toward the Rio Grande when they encountered the […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The nation’s top border security official said on Monday [6-25-18] that his agency has temporarily stopped handing over migrant adults who cross the Mexican border with children to prosecutors, undercutting claims by other administration officials that ‘zero tolerance’ for illegal immigration is still in place. Kevin K. McAleenan, the commissioner of […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was insistent on Monday [6-25-18] he doesn’t regret signing an executive order meant to keep migrant families together, even as the measure from last week continues to sow confusion and internal angst. Meanwhile, his administration continued to maintain there was little they could do to appease the border crisis […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Families who cross into the U.S. illegally aren’t being prosecuted for now, said the official who oversees agents at the border, effectively circumventing the Trump administration’s policy of zero tolerance for illegal immigration. That said, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the zero-tolerance policy remained in effect. Attorney General […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump in recent days has fumed about the immigration courts that handle cases of people seeking entry into the US. But Trump’s fixation on the courts and the judges who staff them flies in the face of what his attorney general has been trying to do to reshape the […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being despite President Donald Trump’s vow to continue a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on illegal immigration, the top U.S. border-security official told news outlets on Monday [6-25-18]. Kevin McAleenan, the head of U.S. […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/IMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What happens next on the U.S. border? Though Donald Trump’s executive order on Wednesday [6-20-18] released some political pressure by keeping immigrant families together in detention, rather than separating children from their parents, it’s not likely to be the end of the story. U.S. law prohibits detaining children for longer than 20 […]

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6/22/2018

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 […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has taken almost every possible Republican position on immigration in the span of a week as he’s tried to deal with the crisis he created of separating thousands of children from their parents at the border. He’s changed policies, made declarations, said his hands were tied, untied them to […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our first duty, and our highest loyalty, is to the citizens of the United States. We will not rest until our border is secure, our citizens are safe, and we finally end the immigration crisis once and for all. https://t.co/7YfZ9kjB23“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 3:23 pm […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/ETHICS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You care, but does the President? Anytime a commander in chief faces that question, it’s a sure sign that something is wrong. But Donald Trump and his administration are finding their humanity under scrutiny in the harrowing saga of kids separated from their parents after illegally crossing the southern border. The administration’s […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s border policy backtrack this week left his fellow Republicans with a choice: flip their own positions or stand firm. It was an easy decision. They changed to be consistent with the president. Still, the move carries risks. While Mr. Trump has long been forgiven by the GOP base for […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday [6-22-18] to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over his border policies. Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have to maintain strong borders or we will no longer have a country that we can be proud of – and if we show any weakness, millions of people will journey into our country.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 5:40 pm […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “Melania Trump visited immigrant children in a Texas border town on Thursday [6-21-18], and by the time the first lady left, she had made headlines for another reason. As the temperature climbed to 80 degrees at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, Mrs. Trump boarded her plane wearing an olive green coat that read, in […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon is assessing how — and where — to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on American military bases, a spokesman said on Thursday [6-21-18]. In a Pentagon statement, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews said officials from the Department of Health and Human Services have so far visited three military […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As reports came in of hundreds of children sent quietly to New York after being separated from their families at the southern border, consular officials from Central American countries scrambled to help. Overnight, their jobs had changed from processing passports and visas from their offices in Midtown Manhattan and on Park Avenue […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump continued to mislead about the origin of the humanitarian crisis on the US border on Thursday [6-21-18], a day after caving to political pressure on the issue. Loath to appear weak on immigration and borders, Trump continued alleging Democrats were to blame for the catastrophe, which he had sought […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “First lady Melania Trump visited a child immigrant detention center near the nation’s border in Texas on Thursday [6-21-18], amid a continuing political crisis over the handling of children and adults arriving there in pursuit of asylum. Mrs. Trump’s surprise visit was announced by President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting with reporters. Speaking […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Changes to the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy of detaining all adults illegally crossing the southern border were creating confusion throughout the immigration bureaucracy, from front-line law enforcement to social-service agencies supporting thousands of children. Officials had been told earlier Thursday [6-21-18] to prosecute only one adult traveling with children if two […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is scrambling to fix the confusion and humanitarian concerns unleashed by President Donald Trump’s reversal on the separation of parents and children who come across the southern border as undocumented migrants. Trump’s hurried executive order designed to defuse a ballooning political crisis caused its own set of problems, […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My Administration is acting swiftly to address the illegal immigration crisis on the Southern Border. Loopholes in our immigration laws all supported by extremist open border Democrats…and that’s what they are – they’re extremist open border Democrats…. https://t.co/F73I5gu0Q5“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 12:02 pm […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Border has been a big mess and problem for many years. At some point Schumer and Pelosi, who are weak on Crime and Border security, will be forced to do a real deal, so easy, that solves this long time problem. Schumer used to want Border security – now he’ll take […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/WALL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday [6-21-18] to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation were beset by confusion. Despite Trump’s order, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300 children who have been […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump’s order meant to end the practice, legal experts said…The order signed by Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] calls for those families to be detained together […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/POPE FRANCIS/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before President Trump’s about-face on Wednesday [6-20-18], Pope Francis criticized the administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents, saying in an interview earlier this week that ‘populism is not the solution’ to a migration crisis that is transforming global politics. In a rare sit-down interview, Francis told Reuters that ‘I […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Long one of President Trump’s most ardent defenders, the evangelist Franklin Graham voiced strenuous dissent this week about the practice of separating families at the border, even calling it ‘disgraceful.’ His comments, along with other criticism from the evangelical community, raised the possibility that the president’s support from conservative Christians might […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday [6-20-18] that the House would press ahead with a vote on a broad immigration bill that includes language to curb the Trump administration’s practice of separating families on the border…But doubts persisted about the bill’s chances of passage when it comes up for […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday [6-20-18] that ends the administration’s policy of separating migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, abandoning the president’s previous stance that only Congress can fix the problem…And the president continued to say that the underlying issue remains one for Congress to fix, titling the document […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] directed his administration to try to detain migrant families together amid a growing political firestorm over a new policy that had separated adults arriving at the southern border from thousands of children traveling with them. In an executive order, Mr. Trump said families seeking asylum should […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the three years since Donald J. Trump began his presidential bid by maligning Mexican immigrants, Representative Will Hurd, a Texas Republican in a Democratic-leaning district, has faced voters of all stripes who were angry about Mr. Trump’s divisive style. But Mr. Hurd, who represents a heavily Hispanic region that stretches […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “GOP Sen. Thom Tillis announced legislation from a group of Republican senators that would stop the separation of immigrant children from their parents, according to a statement from his office that came right as Trump signed an executive order reversing the practice. The bill would allow undocumented immigrant families to stay together during […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump has been working behind the scenes at the White House for the past several days encouraging President Donald Trump to keep families at the US border from being separated, a White House official told CNN Wednesday [6-20-18]. Melania Trump has had several private conversations with her husband, the official said, […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together…Trump’s climbdown came after he faced intense pressure from across the political spectrum and from religious, political and […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday [6-20-18] and signed an executive order that ends the separation of families by indefinitely detaining parents and children together at the border. ‘We’re going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together,’ Mr. Trump said as […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer, resigned from his post as national deputy finance chairman at the Republican National Committee Wednesday [6-20-18], according to an RNC official, saying the investigations into his contacts with Russia and his business dealings were proving too great a distraction. In a letter […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s the Democrats fault, they won’t give us the votes needed to pass good immigration legislation. They want open borders, which breeds horrible crime. Republicans want security. But I am working on something – it never ends!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 20, 2018 08:41 am […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad. Trump signed an executive order requiring that immigrant families be detained together when they are caught […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEFENSE/DHS/FAMILY SEPARATION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of this Administration to rigorously enforce […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “National Guard troops from eight states will be withheld or recalled from the southern border, the states’ governors announced this week, over mounting objections to the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents there. The governors of Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia and North Carolina declared […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump and two members of his cabinet mounted an aggressive defense on Monday [6-18-18] of his policy of separating children from their parents at the border in response to a growing outcry from members of both parties…Attorney General Jeff Sessions also defended the practice, while insisting that ‘we do not […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/BUSH/CHILDREN/HILLARY CLINTON/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/OBAMA FAMILY: “In the weeks since the Trump administration instituted a zero tolerance policy that seeks to criminally prosecute anyone who crosses the border unlawfully and effectively causes children to be separated from their families, criticism has poured in from advocacy groups, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and a host of political […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump ridiculed on Tuesday [6-19-18] what he said was a total lack of security at the nation’s borders, falsely blaming Democrats for separating families and dismissing as ‘crazy’ Republican proposals to hire thousands of new immigration judges. Rejecting a proposal by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to end family separations by […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Homeland Security @SecNielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country, while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete & nasty laws, which force family separation. We want “heart” and security in America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 19, 2018 08:06 pm […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Homeland Security @SecNielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country, while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete & nasty laws, which force family separation. We want “heart” and security in America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 19, 2018 08:06 pm […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is meeting with Republicans Tuesday [6-19-18] on Capitol Hill at a pivotal moment — both for his presidency and his party — as the GOP-controlled House of Representatives prepares to hold major votes on two very different immigration bills this week…It’s the heart-wrenching stories of immigrant families […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Guatemalan woman who was separated from her 7-year-old son after crossing the border from Mexico last month filed a new lawsuit on Tuesday [6-19-18] challenging the Trump administration’s practice of splitting up immigrant families even when an adult claims asylum. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, demands the immediate […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [6-19-18] called on Congress to give his administration the power to detain and deport migrant families as a unit, saying he considered that the ‘only solution to the border crisis’ and separation issue that has rocked immigration negotiations and his administration. Following Mr. Trump’s remarks, Senate Majority […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday [6-19-18], accusing Democrats of wanting migrants to ‘infest our country’ and turning a speech on the economy into an angry tirade defending his harsh stance. It was a reflection of Trump’s growing frustration that the family separation crisis roiling his administration has […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump heads to Capitol Hill Tuesday [6-19-18] evening to rally House Republicans behind an immigration bill he panned just five days ago. Now Republicans have to decide: Which Trump do they believe? Speaker Paul Ryan and his top lieutenants are well aware that only the president can give […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s aides are struggling to defend their talking points on the furor over the administration’s practice of separating families who enter the U.S. illegally, with officials and spokespeople engaging in heated exchanges with little backing from congressional Republicans. As the outcry has grown over the family separations, Trump officials […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#CHANGETHELAWS Now is the best opportunity ever for Congress to change the ridiculous and obsolete laws on immigration. Get it done, always keeping in mind that we must have strong border security.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 19, 2018 9:11 am […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Republicans scrambled on Tuesday [6-19-18] to craft legislation that would quell an outcry over the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, with an opinion poll showing most Americans oppose the policy. The family separations and detentions of children, highlighted by videos of youngsters in cages […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday [6-18-18] he would not allow the United States to become a ‘migrant camp’ as his administration faced a barrage of criticism for separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats and some in Trump’s own Republican Party have admonished the administration for […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/ECONOMY/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Republicans try to keep their midterm election strategy focused on the economy, tax cuts and falling unemployment, President Trump sent his clearest signal yet on Monday [6-18-18] that he intends to make divisive, racially charged issues like immigration central going into the campaign season. Facing bipartisan criticism over his administration’s family […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller spent years on the political fringe in the nation’s capital as high-decibel immigration hard-liners, always warning about the dangers of open borders but rarely in a position to affect law or policy. Now, Mr. Sessions, the attorney general and former senator from Alabama, and Mr. […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump remained resistant on Monday [6-18-18] in the face of growing public outcry over his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border, repeating the false assertion that Democrats were the ones to blame for it, and suggesting that criminals — not parents — were toting juveniles to […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are growing anxious over President Donald Trump’s policy to break up families at the border — and now even his closest allies are trying to help find a way out of a growing political crisis. With the White House refusing to reverse the practice and demanding Congress step into the […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy and resulting separations of undocumented parents and kids is exploding into the most emotive and politically unpredictable test yet of President Donald Trump’s effort to change the character of America. As outrage grows over traumatic stories of families being torn apart, the big question this […]

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6/18/2018

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 […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration’s practice of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Only 28% approve. But among Republicans, there is majority support for the policy that has resulted in an […]

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8/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/ELECTIONS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top aides to President Donald Trump are planning additional crackdowns on immigration before the November midterms, despite a growing backlash over the administration’s move to separate migrant children from parents at the border. Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and a team of officials from the Justice Department, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday [6-18-18] called for the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as a result of immigration policy that has resulted in family separations at the US border…The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border has resulted in thousands of family separations. The policy hasn’t […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker directed the state National Guard not to send any assets or personnel to the US-Mexico border because of the Trump administration’s ‘inhumane treatment’ of children, communications director Lizzy Guyton said in a statement. ‘I think it’s cruel and inhumane, and we told the National Guard to hold steady […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/BUSH FAMILY/HILLARY CLINTON/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama provided a signal boost on Monday [6-18-18] to another former first lady, Laura Bush, for her opinion piece slamming the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the border. Speaking at a women’s forum award ceremony on Monday, Clinton also said […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Undaunted and unapologetic, President Donald Trump defended his administration’s border-protection policies Monday [6-18-18] in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. Tough action is needed to fight illegal immigration, he declared and the U.S. ‘will not be a migrant camp’ on his watch. […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are openly admonishing the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the border…Whether the blistering statements will manifest themselves into legislation remains to be seen. Such action would require GOP members to directly defy Trump, something the party has been hesitant to pursue in an election year. And the Senate […]

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6/18/2018

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 […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents who cross into the U.S. illegally and suggested the policy could be ended as part of broader immigration legislation that may be voted on this week. Mr. Sessions in May announced a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy of detaining adults attempting […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy that has resulted in thousands of family separations at the border hasn’t deterred immigrants from trying to enter the country illegally, despite the administration’s predictions that it would, internal Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by CNN show. The documents, which refer to the effort […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is the Democrats fault for being weak and ineffective with Boarder Security and Crime. Tell them to start thinking about the people devastated by Crime coming from illegal immigration. Change the laws!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 18, 2018 8:53 am […]

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6/18/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means to enter our country. Has anyone been looking at the Crime taking place south of the border. It is historic, with some countries the most dangerous places in the world. Not going to happen in the U.S.” […]

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6/17/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Leading figures of both parties demanded on Sunday [6-17-18] that President Trump halt his administration’s practice of separating children from their parents when apprehended at the border, as the issue further polarized the already divisive immigration debate in Washington. Republican lawmakers, the former first lady Laura Bush, a conservative newspaper and a […]

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6/15/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The US government has separated at least 2,000 children from parents at the border since implementing a policy that results in such family separations, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Friday [6-15-18]. From April 19 through May 31 of this year, 1,995 minors traveling with 1,940 adults who said they were the […]

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6/15/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration. Go for it! WIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 […]

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6/14/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday [6-14-18] said he’s not comfortable with the Trump administration’s push to separate migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, even as he refused to blame President Donald Trump on the issue. ‘We don’t want kids to be separated from their parents,’ Ryan told reporters, […]

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