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New York Times:
Trump Plans Executive Order to End Family Separation — President Trump is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Wednesday that ends the separation of families at the border by indefinitely detaining parents and children together, according to a person familiar with the White House plans.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Stephen Actually Enjoys Seeing Those Pictures at the Border”: The West Wing Is Fracturing Over Trump's Callous Migrant-Family Policy — Miller gloats and Sanders sulks as the president—oblivious to the moral problem and political consequences—bulls ahead.
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Associated Press:
Homeland Security drafts plan to end family separation — WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is drafting an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together in detention after they are detained crossing the border illegally …
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Fox News:
White House considering executive action to prevent family separations at border — The White House is considering executive action to allow children to stay with parents caught crossing the border illegally, Fox News has learned — a step that could avoid the family separations that have triggered …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen's embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border — The Trump administration insisted it didn't have a policy of separating children from their parents at the border. It said that it was merely following the law. And it said “Congress alone can fix” the mess.
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Splinter:
Here's Stephen Miller's Cell Phone Number, If You Need It — The Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families has been credited primarily to the strenuous efforts of White House adviser Stephen Miller. Perhaps you would like to call him about it.
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Sean Hannity:
TRUMP STEPS IN: The President Will Sign Executive Order to ‘Keep Families Together’ — President Trump announced his plan to sign an executive order Wednesday that would allow illegal immigrant families to “stay together” if caught entering the United States; a major step that will prevent future …
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Washington Post:
Trump reverses course, says he will put an end to family separations on southern border
Trump reverses course, says he will put an end to family separations on southern border
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
White House can't get its story straight on family separation. There could be legal consequences.
White House can't get its story straight on family separation. There could be legal consequences.
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump says he will sign ‘something’ soon to keep immigrant families together
Trump says he will sign ‘something’ soon to keep immigrant families together
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump urged her husband to end the border separation policy
Melania Trump urged her husband to end the border separation policy
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true
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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters — Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
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The Texas Tribune:
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect — Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse. — Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents — Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents. — WASHINGTON — The cost of holding migrant children …
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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan — The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics says migrant children being separated from their parents at the border are suffering from child abuse. Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more. Buzz60 — CONNECT
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation — VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.
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CNN:
What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border
What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border
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SOM - State of Michigan:
MDCR Statement on President Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and its Impact on Michigan
MDCR Statement on President Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and its Impact on Michigan
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Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump to sign executive action halting family separations
Trump to sign executive action halting family separations
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms. His Goal: Flip the House — Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year …
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Eliana Larramendia / ABC News:
Michael Cohen resigns from RNC committee post, sources say — Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime confidant and former personal attorney, has resigned from his post as deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee's Finance Committee, sources close to the RNC told ABC News.
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Reveal:
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims — President Donald Trump's zero tolerance policy is creating a zombie army of children forcibly injected with medications that make them dizzy, listless, obese and even incapacitated, according to legal filings that show immigrant children …
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them. — Protesters entered a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening to heckle Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. She appeared to sit quietly with her head …
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Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Protesters Confront Kirstjen Nielsen at Mexican Restaurant: ‘Shame!’
Protesters Confront Kirstjen Nielsen at Mexican Restaurant: ‘Shame!’
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Melania Calls Secret Service After Actor Peter Fonda Calls For Barron Trump To Be Kidnapped — The Office of the First Lady has notified the Secret Service after actor Peter Fonda called for kidnapping Melania and Donald Trump's son, Barron, The Daily Caller has learned exclusively.
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trudeau on family separations: 'What's going on in the United States is wrong' — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday he “can't imagine” what families separated by a controversial American immigration policy are living through, bluntly criticizing the actions of President Donald Trump's administration..
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Gray Matters / Houston Chronicle:
Flight attendant: I won't work flights that separate immigrant kids from families — For the past 29 years I have been a flight attendant for a major U.S. airline. Several weeks ago, I worked two flights (one to San Antonio and the other to McAllen) which proved to be two of the most …
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Dallas Morning News
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dems Doing Well in Senate, CD03 — Trump popular, but not decisive factor — West Long Branch, NJ - Incumbent Joe Manchin holds a small lead over GOP challenger Patrick Morrisey in the race for U.S. Senate in the deep red state of West Virginia. Even though Donald Trump is widely popular …
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Maria Curi / Politico:
Trump calls off congressional picnic, saying it didn't feel ‘right’ — President Trump on Wednesday said he was calling off the annual congressional picnic scheduled for Thursday evening as his administration grapples with the furor over its hardline practice of separating migrant families crossing at the border.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Lawmakers Barred From Talking To Kids At Border Patrol Facilities — They also have to give two weeks' notice before visiting a detention facility or they'll be denied access, per a new HHS directive. — WASHINGTON Members of Congress who visit detention facilities at the border aren't allowed …
Washington Post:
Key nuclear expert departs Trump administration as North Korea negotiations loom — A key U.S. official involved in denuclearization talks with North Korea is leaving the White House just as the Trump administration prepares to engage in high-stakes negotiations with the isolated regime, the official confirmed to The Washington Post.
Wall Street Journal:
Germany's Largest Auto Makers Back Abolition of EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs — The U.S. ambassador to Germany is expected to relay the industry offer in meetings with Trump administration — BERLIN—When the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, returns to Washington for consultation …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
REVEALED: Christopher Steele Visited State Department Shortly Before 2016 Election — Former British spy Christopher Steele visited the State Department in October 2016 and briefed officials there about his work on the infamous anti-Trump dossier, it was revealed on Wednesday.
The Guardian:
US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year — It is unclear whether Adam Waldman's 2017 visits had connection to Oleg Deripaska — A longtime US lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy …
Matthew Walther / The Week:
Why Trump country is unfazed by the child separation crisis — The bishop of Tucson, Franklin Graham, and Michelle Obama agree about very few things, but the inhumanity of President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policy is one of them. The New York Times and the New York Post, National Review …
Sherman Smith / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kobach's office tells counties to keep enforcing proof of citizenship law — Sherman Smith sherman_news — The elections director for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told county clerks in a conference call Tuesday to continue enforcing a proof of citizenship law that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trumpism, Realized — At least 2,000 children have now been forcibly separated from their parents by the United States government. Their stories are wrenching. Antar Davidson, a former youth-care worker at an Arizona shelter, described to the Los Angeles Times children “huddled together …
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
In Trump's world, morality is for losers — “Virtue-signaling” is a snide little phrase that people vaguely of the “right” invented to tease people vaguely of the “left.” Like “limousine liberal” or “champagne socialist,” it implies insincerity and self-righteousness.
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Corey Lewandowski on undocumented child with Down syndrome separated from mother: ‘Womp womp’ — Washington (CNN)Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally.