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Prisoners of War? Trump Executive Order Will Hand Responsibility for Housing Families to US Military

‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy Will Continue
President Trump is about to sign an executive order that purportedly will pause – not end – his policy of forcibly separating migrant babies and children from their parents, and their different-sex siblings. While all the details are not currently known, two important details are.
First, responsibility for housing the children and the families will be handed over to the U.S. military. In a sense, these families will become President Trump’s prisoners of war.
And second, the executive order – which is wholly unnecessary, Trump could put an end to all of this with a phone call – will not end his “zero tolerance” policy, the Associated Press reports.
It “would aim to keep families together while they are in custody and ask the Department of Defense to help house the detained families. ”
Why the Defense Dept. is anyone’s guess, but one clue may be in the fact that military contractors are making millions off Trump’s zero tolerance policy, and perhaps he wants to extend that gift by keeping as much as possible within the auspices of the U.S. Military.
So, all immigrants who cross the border illegally will still be arrested and physically detained, but going forward, presumably, families will not be split apart.
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