{"id":1004165,"date":"2019-04-09T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1004165"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:04:10","slug":"trump-just-wants-to-separate-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-just-wants-to-separate-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018Just Wants To Separate Families\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Secretary Nielsen\u2019s resignation, Trump is doubling down on his cruel anti-immigrant agenda. Now, Trump wants to illegally revive and even escalate his family separation policy. As one senior administration official put it, \u201c[Trump] just wants to separate families.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump wants a stricter, more widespread \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy that would result in even more family separations.<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cSenior administration officials also told CNN that in the last four months or so, the President has been pushing Nielsen to enforce a stricter and more widespread \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 immigration policy — not just the original policy started by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and undone by the President once it was criticized — that called for the prosecution of individuals crossing the border illegally between ports of entry, resulting in the separation of parents from children.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump wants to separate families even when they come through legal ports of entry seeking asylum.<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cAccording to multiple sources, the President wanted families separated even if they came in at a legal port of entry and were legal asylum seekers. The President wanted families separated even if they were apprehended within the US. He thinks the separations work to deter migrants from coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s pick to replace Secretary Nielsen at DHS is the one who implemented Trump\u2019s family separation.<\/p>\n

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Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cKirstjen Nielsen will go down in infamy for claiming the Trump administration did not \u2018create a policy of separating families at the border,\u2019 but the man taking her job as homeland security secretary actually implemented the policy\u2014and it was his agents who did the separating. \u2026 In April 2018, McAleenan co-authored a memo to Nielsen stating that DHS could \u2018direct the separation of parents or legal guardians and minors held in immigration detention so that the parent or legal guardian can be prosecuted\u2026\u2019 The memo laid out several options for Nielsen to choose so DHS could help prosecute every unauthorized border crossing under the abandoned \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s DHS is now pursuing a \u201cbinary choice\u201d policy that would force immigrant parents to choose between being separated from their children or detained indefinitely with them.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cDHS officials are now looking for a way to satisfy the president\u2019s demand for \u2018tough\u2019 measures, including a plan called \u2018binary choice\u2019 that would give migrant parents the option of remaining detained as a family or agreeing to a separation so that their children would not remain in immigration custody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NBC<\/a>: \u201cThree U.S. officials said that Kevin McAleenan, the head of Customs and Border Patrol who is expected to take over as acting DHS secretary, has not ruled out family separation as an option. The policy McAleenan would consider, according to the officials, is known as \u2018binary choice\u2019 and would give migrant parents the option between being separated from their children or bringing their children with them into long term detention.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump called for eliminating the entire asylum system and reportedly ordered officials to illegally deny entry to asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cThey have to get rid of the whole asylum system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cBehind the scenes, two sources told CNN, the President told border agents to not let migrants in. Tell them we don’t have the capacity, he said. If judges give you trouble, say, \u2018Sorry, judge, I can’t do it. We don’t have the room.\u2019 After the President left the room, agents sought further advice from their leaders, who told them they were not giving them that direction and if they did what the President said they would take on personal liability. You have to follow the law, they were told.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Secretary Nielsen\u2019s resignation, Trump is doubling down on his cruel anti-immigrant agenda. Now, Trump wants to illegally revive and even escalate his family separation policy. As one senior administration official put it, \u201c[Trump] just wants to separate families.\u201d   Trump wants a stricter, more widespread \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy that would result in even more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump \u2018Just Wants To Separate Families\u2019 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-just-wants-to-separate-families\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-09T14:45:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:04:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-just-wants-to-separate-families\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-just-wants-to-separate-families\/\",\"name\":\"Trump \u2018Just Wants To Separate Families\u2019 - 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