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Family Separation
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the national circus
The Shameless Fakery of Trump’s Retreat on Family SeparationsHis executive order was a prop intended to wipe the images of caged children from the screen. It won’t work.
By Frank Rich
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Protesters Gather at La Guardia Airport as Separated Children Arrive in New YorkHundreds turned out upon learning that federal officials surreptitiously transferred 239 separated children to New York, and more are still arriving.
By Margaret Hartmann
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the national interest
Why Trump’s Family-Separation Policy FailedA political and policy debacle from an administration with a failed immigration policy.
By Jonathan Chait
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Trump Ends Family Separations by Ordering Family DetentionsThe obvious thing for Trump to do was to reverse Jeff Sessions’s “zero tolerance” policy. But he went in the opposite direction.
By Ed Kilgore
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Trump Ended Family Separation Because He Failed to Demonize ToddlersDonald Trump is good at dehumanizing immigrants — but not when they’re still in diapers.
By Eric Levitz
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Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies Highlight Obama’s MisstepsAs the Democratic Party moves left, the former president’s policies look less defensible.
By Benjamin Hart
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Trump Signs Executive Order Ending His Own Family-Separation PolicyHe emphasized, though, that his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy will continue.
By Adam K. Raymond
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Reuniting Families Separated at the Border Won’t Be EasyThe Trump administration has no plan for bringing together parents and the children taken away from them.
By Adam K. Raymond
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the national interest
Real-life Stephen Miller Now Creepier Than Onion Parody VersionTrump’s immigration adviser “enjoys” the suffering of the children.
By Jonathan Chait
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Is Trump Actually Going to Do Anything About Family Separation?Fear of looking “weak” has apparently paralyzed POTUS on what is becoming a true political crisis for him.
By Ed Kilgore
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Trump Administration Keeps Babies and Toddlers in ‘Tender Age’ SheltersExperts say this treatment stunts young children’s development, and under the disorganized U.S. system, family separations can become permanent.
By Margaret Hartmann
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Protesters Crash Kirstjen Nielsen’s Dinner at a Mexican RestaurantPublicly, she’s the face of the administration’s most heartless policy, but in the White House, she’s gaining admirers.
By Margaret Hartmann
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Trump’s Big Immigration Meeting With House Republicans Fixed NothingTrump did clear up the confusion over immigration bills he created last week, but did not explain how to resolve the family separation emergency.
By Ed Kilgore
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Sessions Defends Family Separation With False Claim About Nazis’ Plan for JewsThe attorney general said the Nazis “were keeping the Jews from leaving the country” — but initially they wanted to deport them.
By Margaret Hartmann
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John Kelly Doesn’t Care Enough to Save Trump From HimselfThe chief of staff seems indifferent to the president’s fate, and while he’d like to shield protégée Kirstjen Nielsen, he’s failed.
By Margaret Hartmann
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last night on late night
Stephen Colbert Has the Devil Stop by to Defend Child-Separation PolicySatan visited Monday’s Late Show to justify America’s “all-baby reboot of The Shawshank Redemption.”
By Halle Kiefer
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Inside the Disastrous White House Briefing on Trump’s Child-Separation PolicyHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tried to defend the separation of families at the border, but wound up making the uproar even worse.
By Olivia Nuzzi
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Family Separation Is the Opening Salvo of a Broader Anti-Immigration OffensiveIf you liked “zero tolerance,” Miller and Trump have a lot more anti-immigrant ideas where that came from.
By Ed Kilgore
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Trump Border Policies Uniting the Faithful — Against HimFrom religious progressives to Trump’s conservative Evangelical friends, the “zero tolerance” policy is under heavy theological attack.
By Ed Kilgore
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the national interest
Why Trump Is Using Hostage Tactics on Family SeparationIt’s a way for him to avoid taking responsibility for his own policy.
By Jonathan Chait
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We’re Getting a Taste of the Backlash Mass Deportation Would CreateKids in cages at the border have aroused the conscience of the country and put the GOP in a bind. Mass deportation of the undocumented would be worse.
By Ed Kilgore
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Laura Bush Condemns Trump Family-Separation Policy As ‘Cruel’ and ‘Immoral’While Trump and his most ardent supporters probably won’t be moved, her op-ed drew attention to the growing number of bipartisan objections.
By Margaret Hartmann
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immigration
Separating Families at the Border Was Always Part of the PlanTrump and administration officials like Stephen Miller view the detention of immigrant children as a long-awaited victory.
By Chas Danner
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DHS: Nearly 2,000 Children Taken Under Trump’s New Border PolicyTrump insists that families are being separated because of a Democratic policy, but that’s not true.
By Adam K. Raymond
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No, Jeff Sessions, Separating Kids From Their Parents Isn’t ‘Biblical’Sessions uses a much-abused Bible quotation to justify his immigration policies against religious critics. He should not go there.
By Ed Kilgore
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Reporters Tour Texas Facility Where Migrant Children Are DetainedNearly 1,500 undocumented boys are being housed in a former Walmart, which is overcrowded and features a creepy Trump mural.
By Margaret Hartmann
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Trump Again Blames Democrats for His Own Inhumane Immigration PolicyUp is down, black is white, and liberals are the ones separating children from their parents.
By Benjamin Hart
