2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
President Trump has signed an executive order that will keep families crossing the border together, while ensuring that the United States will continue to have a "powerful border."
"We keep families together," Trump said from the Oval Office flanked by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence. "This will solve that problem. We have zero tolerance for people who enter our country illegally, "said Trump.
With this, Trump officially reverses his discredited argument that he had no authority to stop the separation of immigrant children from their parents.
Following the call for attention to the political and humanitarian crisis that has been unleashed in the United States due to the conditions in which they have immigrant children in detention centers, President Donald Trump announced this morning that he was preparing an executive order to prevent the separation.
The US president has refused for weeks to simply end his government's Zero Tolerance policy that has led to the separation of approximately 2,000 children from their parents, saying the alternative would be [simply] to "open the country's borders and allow immigrants to cross the border illegally to stay in the country."
Trump's new executive order would try to avoid an existing consent decree from 1997, known as the Flores Accord, which prohibits the federal government from keeping children in immigration detention, even if they are with their parents, for more than 20 days.
If the new order were passed, it would represent a remarkable change for a president who has flatly refused to apologize in any other context, a testament to the political power of the heartbreaking images of children in public opinion.
While Mr. Trump's actions appear to fall short of calls for an end to the "zero tolerance" policy, it would be a notable retreat for a president who has flatly refused to apologize in almost any other context. And it would be a testimony to the political power of the images denouncing the conditions in which the immigrant children are to move public opinion.
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