Quotes By Donald Trump on Family Separation at the US/Mexico Border
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June 15, 2018
June 20, 2018
#DonaldTrump 6/15/18: "You can’t ❲end family separation❳ through an executive order." » #Trump 6/20/18: "This ❲executive order❳ will solve that problem." #Immigration Click To Tweet
Quotes By Donald Trump on Family Separation at the US/Mexico Border
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June 15, 2018
- June 15, 2018
The White House, June 15, 2018
President Trump: “I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That’s their law.” — CSPAN (@cspan) June 15, 2018
Remarks by President Trump in Press Gaggle
Full video here: https://t.co/WMzF4SAYvu pic.twitter.com/r1vUUfloge
- June 15, 2018
The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration. Go for it! WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2018
NOW
June 20, 2018
June 20, 2018 -
White House, June 20, 2018
Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence at Signing of Executive Order Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation
#Trump 6/15/18: "Democrats are forcing the breakup of families…with their…cruel…agenda." » #Trump 6/20/18: "I didn’t like…families being separated…We’re keeping families together." Click To Tweet
Context
Donald Trump‘s rapid reversal followed intense public and political pressure for him stop separating parents from their children at the U.S./Mexico border.1Politico, June 20, 2018
The day Trump caved
retrieved 6/26/18
On July 31, 2018, a top Health and Human Services official told a Senate panel that he had warned Trump Administration officials for months against separating children from their parents before the administration did exactly that, saying “There is no question that separation of children from parents entails significant potential for traumatic psychological injury to the child.”2The Hill, July 31, 2018
Study ignites debate over cost of ‘Medicare for All’ | Individual market enrollment drops as premiums rise
retrieved 6/26/18
Over 2,500 children were separated from their parents before Trump’s about-face. As of August 10, 2018, 559 children still had not been reunited with their parents.3Time, August 10, 2018
559 Children Separated at the Border Have Still Not Been Reunited With Their Parents
retrieved 8/18/18
Trump officials in response to Christian leaders criticizing family separation:
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June 14, 2018
- Jeff Sessions
NBC News, June 14, 2018
Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents
- Sarah Sanders
NBC News, June 14, 2018
Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents