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/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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6/18/2018

CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans are lining up two measures for potential floor votes – both a conservative bill and one that is the product of negotiations involving centrists in the chamber. But prospects for some kind of legislative breakthrough have been imperiled by controversy over the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy, which has led […]

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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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6/14/2018

CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has selected federal land in Texas as a place to temporarily house unaccompanied immigrant children, as the agency seeks more capacity amid the increasing number of families separated at the border because of the administration’s policies. In a statement, the office that handles child settlement within the Health and […]

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6/14/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Family separations at the border have become a political football. Lawmakers and party leaders in Congress are increasingly fighting over how best to address the issue — blaming each other for the heart-wrenching situation. House Speaker Paul Ryan argued Thursday [6-14-18] that Congress should step up and resolve the problem with a […]

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6/5/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The tough new ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy enacted by President Donald Trump has led to a general outcry about how the US treats undocumented children, separating them from their parents at the border. Democrats in particular have been raising alarms about the policy, which Trump Cabinet officials say is just enforcing the […]

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6/4/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House was thrown into turmoil after a handful of photographs of school-aged immigrant children, held behind fences in detention centers, ignited on social media. President Donald Trump and top aides including policy adviser Stephen Miller felt deeply frustrated that these images, which dated back to the Obama administration, were […]

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5/31/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is pushing changes in immigration laws to make it easier to jail and quickly deport children who cross the border illegally. He also wants to make it harder to pursue asylum. To him, these are legal ‘loopholes’ that Congress needs to close to stop illegal immigration. But these proposals […]

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