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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Attacks Germany's Refugee Policy, Saying U.S. Must Avoid Europe's Immigration Problems — WASHINGTON — President Trump warned on Monday that the United States must avoid the immigration problems facing Europe and attacked the policies of Germany, one of America's closest allies.
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Laura Bush / Washington Post:
Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’ — Laura Bush is a former first lady of the United States. — On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans who watched images of children who have been torn from their parents.
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas — McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Poll: Republicans Approve of Trump's Family Separation Policy … Nearly every day, voters have been confronted with heart wrenching stories about immigrant children being separated from their parents upon crossing the border into the United States. — The president incorrectly blames …
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Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
U.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents — GENEVA — The United Nations' top human rights official on Monday entered the mounting furor over the Trump administration's policy of separating undocumented immigrant children from their parents …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Family separation policy starts dividing Republicans — WASHINGTON (AP) — The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans and their allies as Democrats turn up the pressure. — Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy “cruel” …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
DHS Secretary Says There's No Family Separation Policy ‘Period’ — Last week, DHS announced that nearly 2,000 kids had been separated from their parents during a six-week period ending last month. — Department of Homeland Security Secretary , Kirstjen Nielsen defended her agency's role …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump and the Baby Snatchers — This was the lead paragraph of a New York Times report last week: — “The Trump administration said on Friday that it had separated 1,995 children from parents facing criminal prosecution for unlawfully crossing the border over a six-week period that ended last month …
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Mark Osborne / ABC News:
Homeland Security chief slams ‘irresponsible’ reports on separation of migrant families
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Associated Press Uses ‘Cages’ to Describe Chain-Link Partitions in Border Patrol Center
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump team cannot get its story straight on separating migrant families
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Melania Trump weighs in on her husband's cruel policy. Where are you, Ivanka?
Axios:
Pressure grows on Trump to change border policy for kids
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Senator Ben Sasse:
Many Nebraskans this weekend asked me about the kids at the border. Here's a short version of what I told them. This is a bit over-simplified, but these are broad brushstrokes of how I understand the situation at present: — 1) Family separation is wicked.
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David Siders / Politico:
Shell-shocked Democrats regroup in Wisconsin — Donald Trump's stunning 2016 victory in the state sparked an urgent recovery mission. — OSHKOSH, Wis. — Donald Trump's romp through white, working class America in 2016 was nowhere more traumatic for Democrats than in Wisconsin …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What do Republicans suspect really happened in the FBI Trump-Russia investigation? — The struggle to uncover the FBI's conduct in the Trump-Russia probe has made some congressional investigators deeply suspicious of the bureau. But what do those investigators think the FBI actually …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Kim Jong Un More Popular Than Pelosi Among Republicans: Exclusive Poll Results … Self-identified Republicans now have a marginally more favorable view of Kim Jong Un than they do for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), according to a new Ipsos poll done exclusively for The Daily Beast.
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Lies, China And Putin: Solving The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Fortune — Amid President Trump's headaches confirming cabinet secretaries, from neophyte Rex Tillerson to conflict-prone Scott Pruitt to unprepared Betsy DeVos, all of whom squeezed through, Wilbur Ross was a tonic.
Stanley B. Greenberg / New York Times:
Riling Up the Base May Backfire on Trump — Political commentators and strategists write with some awe of President Trump's outrageous, gutsy strategy of ginning up his base with one more attack on black athletes, one more crackdown on Central American mothers and children on the Mexican border …
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Dana Branham / Dallas Morning News:
Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says — A Texas sheriff's deputy accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl threatened the victim's mother into staying quiet about the assaults, authorities said Sunday.
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Michael Hawthorne / Chicago Tribune:
Trump Tower, one of largest users of Chicago River water, has never met EPA rules for protecting fish, records show — A view of Trump International Hotel & Tower from across the Chicago River on June 6, 2018. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune) — Fishing piers and floating gardens welcome anglers …
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Olivia Goldhill / Quartz:
A new study ranks US states in order of psychopathy — Sometimes, it can feel like there are psychopaths everywhere. If you live in the United States, it's now possible to move to less psychopathic environs, thanks to new research ranking 48 contiguous states by psychopathy.
Michal Kranz / Business Insider France:
Meet Stephen Miller, the 32-year-old White House adviser who convinced Trump to start separating migrant children from their parents at the border — White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has been identified as the driving force behind the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” …
Angela Moon / Yahoo:
Americans grapple with recognizing facts in news stories: Pew survey — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Only a quarter of U.S. adults in a recent survey could fully identify factual statements - as opposed to opinion - in news stories, the Pew Research Center found in a study released on Monday.
Trent Baker / Breitbart:
Coulter Warns Trump on Immigration, Border: 'Don't Fall for the Actor Children' — Sunday on Fox News Channel's “The Next Revolution,” conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter advised President Donald Trump not to “fall for the actor children” at the border and cited …
New York Post:
Stop breaking up families at the border — House Speaker Paul Ryan says he wants to stop the mass separation of children from their families along the border, but his bid to fix it is pathetic. And President Trump's claim that Democrats need to change the relevant law is no better. — SEE ALSO
Lev Facher / STAT:
Empty desks, squabbles, inexperienced staff: Exactly who is coordinating White House drug policy? — W — ASHINGTON — For at least six months, staffers in the Office of National Drug Control Policy — often political appointees in their 20s — have crossed 17th Street …
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