Despite claiming that by law children had to be separated from their undocumented parents, President Trump has just signed an order mandating that families not be separated going forward.
“I did not like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,” Trump told reporters when he signed the order just after 3 PM Wednesday. Days earlier Trump had said immigrants are “infesting” America.
Trump’s horrific “zero tolerance” policy – meaning every single person crossing the southern border illegally will be arrested and possibly deported. Families will be housed by the Dept. of Defense, for unknown reasons.
As he signed the unnecessary order – a phone call would have sufficed – he actually said: “This has been going on for 60 years. No one until now has had the political courage to solve it.”
He added, “What we have done today is we are keeping families together.”
Trump was flanked by DHS Secretary Nielsen and VP Mike Pence.
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UPDATE:
Here’s the text of Trump’s EO. It’s called, “Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Seperation,” and yes, the word “separation” is spelled wrong.
UPDATE II:
Apparently the White House, rather than just fix the spelling error deleted the entire page and uploaded a new document with a new URL. It is now here.
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