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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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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 …
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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The Week
Reveal:
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations — Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion in the past four years to private companies operating immigrant youth shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and sexual and physical abuse, a Reveal investigation has found.
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Maddow breaks down on-air while describing ‘tender age’ migrant shelters
Maddow breaks down on-air while describing ‘tender age’ migrant shelters
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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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Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Trump's family separation policy is as damaging to America as Abu Ghraib
Trump's family separation policy is as damaging to America as Abu Ghraib
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Madison Park / CNN:
Protesters shout ‘shame’ at Kirstjen Nielsen as she dines at Mexican restaurant
Protesters shout ‘shame’ at Kirstjen Nielsen as she dines at Mexican restaurant
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Chanting activists confront DHS secretary during dinner at Mexican restaurant
Chanting activists confront DHS secretary during dinner at Mexican restaurant
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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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SOM - State of Michigan:
MDCR Statement on President Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and its Impact on Michigan — Contact: Vicki Levengood - levengoodv@michigan.gov, 517-241-7978 — Lansing, MI-The Michigan Department of Civil Rights today announced that the Department is actively engaged in assessing the impact …
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Trump Administration Keeps Babies and Toddlers in ‘Tender Age’ Shelters
Trump Administration Keeps Babies and Toddlers in ‘Tender Age’ Shelters
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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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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true — He's done it on Twitter. He's done it in the White House driveway. And he's done it in a speech to a business group. — President Trump — a man already known for trafficking in mistruths and even outright lies …
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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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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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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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Judith Vonberg / CNN:
Pope criticizes Trump administration over migrant family separations
Pope criticizes Trump administration over migrant family separations
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KTLA
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees — Former personal lawyer for Trump hires New York attorney Guy Petrillo — Michael Cohen has hired New York lawyer Guy Petrillo to represent him in a federal investigation into his business dealings, and has told associates he wants President Donald Trump …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘Nasty guy’: Trump attacks critic, touts accomplishments in House GOP meeting on immigration — Rep. Mark Sanford was at the airport in Charleston, S.C., for four hours of “airplane hell” when President Trump veered from his speech on immigration to the South Carolina Republican.
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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 …
CNN:
What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border — Mesa, Arizona (CNN)As the Trump administration has ramped up the practice of separating children from their parents at the border with no clear plan for reuniting them, critics have been unsparing, calling it “government-sanctioned child abuse.”
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Poll: McSally holds 14-point lead in Arizona GOP Senate primary — (R-Ariz.) surged into first place with a commanding 14-point lead in Arizona's closely watched GOP Senate primary, according to a new poll. — A poll conducted by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) …
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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.
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Laignee Barron / TIME:
Corey Lewandowski Mocks Story About 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother at the Border
Corey Lewandowski Mocks Story About 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother at the Border
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Agents Gave Trump a Weapon Against Mueller. Republicans Are Wielding It. — WASHINGTON — President Trump's congressional allies trained their fire on the special counsel investigation on Tuesday, armed anew with a damaging report showing that the lead F.B.I. agent assigned …
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New York Times:
Outside Trump Hotel, an Uproar. Inside, a Calm Sea of Conservative Cash. — WASHINGTON — To anyone with even a cursory relationship to television or social media, a charged and emotional battle over the Trump administration's approach to immigration seems to have seeped into every dimension of American life.
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Washington Post:
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, has been removed from ministry after a sex abuse allegation — The former archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been removed from ministry in response to allegations that he sexually abused a teen 50 years ago while he was a priest in New York.
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott urges congressional action on separated immigrant families: “This disgraceful condition must end.” — “This disgraceful condition must end; and it can only end with action by Congress to reform the broken immigration system,” Abbott wrote in a letter to all members of the Texas delegation.
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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Yahoo! News:
Trump no longer ‘moral leader of free world’: top rights body — US President Donald Trump is “no longer the moral leader of his country or the world”, the human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, said Wednesday amid global outrage over the White House's policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Businesses have made millions off Trump's child separation policy — WASHINGTON — President Trump's controversial child separation policy is being carried out with the help of private businesses who have received millions of dollars in government contracts to help run the shelters …
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Jeff Sessions / USA Today:
We don't want to separate parents from kids — What we want is a safe, lawful system of immigration. We want to build a wall to prevent illegal entry. Congress could make that happen quickly: Opposing view — CONNECT — Some years ago, it was decided that law enforcement might arrest adults …
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CNN
Axios:
Trump “boxed in,” won't back down on family separation — Speaking to House Republicans at the Capitol last evening, President Trump admitted the political pressure over family separations at the border is growing. But a top aide said Trump “doesn't want to look weak” by backing down.
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Douglas Hanks / miamiherald:
Eileen Higgins wins Miami-Dade commission seat in upset over Zoraida Barreiro — Political newcomer Eileen Higgins won a seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday, defeating the better-funded campaign of the former commissioner's wife to scramble the conventional wisdom …
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Politico:
Democratic candidates vow to dump Pelosi — A growing number of hopefuls say they won't back her for speaker if Democrats win the House. Pelosi has little margin for error. — Clarke Tucker's first general election ad for an Arkansas-based House race tries to defuse one of the GOP's most potent attacks …
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