Republicans seize on immigration as border crossings surge
3 years, 9 months ago

Republicans seize on immigration as border crossings surge

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Delegation trips to the border. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a potential 2024 presidential candidate who is planning to lead his own Senate delegation tour to the Texas-Mexico border next Friday, accused the administration of having, “in effect, issued an invitation for unaccompanied children to come to this country.” Even Sen. Mitt Romney, one of Trump’s most prominent Republican critics, faulted Biden’s moves, including the halting of construction of Trump’s signature border wall project. “What’s happening at our southern border is a real crisis, and the Administration is making it worse by unlawfully freezing border wall funding appropriated by Congress,” Romney tweeted after signing onto a letter with 39 other Republican senators criticizing the new approach to the border. “Don’t leave your town or city or community.” In the meantime, Republicans see Biden as boxed-in politically, with limited options for dealing with the border. “It is a kind of delicious irony that Biden’s having to reopen detention centers that Trump had closed because he succeeded in shutting down the traffic.” Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a longtime Trump ally, said he expects the border to become a top issue if the numbers continue to grow.

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A key Trump ally on immigration explains how mass deportations could work
5 days ago

A key Trump ally on immigration explains how mass deportations could work

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas official who is an informal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on immigration issues doesn’t expect mass deportations to prompt arrests of migrants at sensitive locations such as schools and churches. KOBACH: “Once there’s a massive enforcement effort going on, then a lot of people start leaving on their own.” “You can put a …

A key Trump ally on immigration explains how mass deportations could work
5 days, 5 hours ago

A key Trump ally on immigration explains how mass deportations could work

LA Times  

A Kansas official who is an informal advisor to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on immigration issues doesn’t expect mass deportations to prompt arrests of migrants at sensitive locations such as schools and churches. Kobach: “Whatever the Trump administration does will certainly be litigated because it’s one of those hot-button issues.” “I believe that the Trump administration has every intention …

Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort
1 week, 6 days ago

Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort

LA Times  

Tom Homan, right, Donald Trump’s pick for border czar, speaks to state troopers and National Guard troops at a facility on the Mexican border in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Gov. Other measures filed ahead of next year’s legislative sessions would require local law enforcement agencies to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they take someone into custody who is …

Trump team considers 'illegal' workaround to speed up key campaign promise: report
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Trump team considers 'illegal' workaround to speed up key campaign promise: report

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's incoming administration intends to deport migrants to countries they've never visited if their home countries refuse to accept them, according to a new report. Three sources familiar with the plans say administration officials are preparing a list of countries – including but not limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada – where they would send …

Trump vows tariffs over immigration. What the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Trump vows tariffs over immigration. What the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In a Monday evening announcement, President-elect Donald Trump railed against Mexico and Canada, accusing them of allowing thousands of people to enter the U.S. A look at what the numbers and studies say about border crossings, fentanyl smuggling and whether there’s a connection between immigration and crime: Border crossings Economics and business experts say Trump’s proposed 25% tax …

Immigration policy: Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action
1 month, 1 week ago

Immigration policy: Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action

CNN  

CNN — Immigrants, their employers and groups that work with them are already taking action ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has promised to deport millions of people. “That’s the network that will be mobilized when it comes to fighting any sort of more extreme measures such as deportation.” A day after the election, New York …

‘No price tag on safety’: Trump’s bold plan for a ‘strong and powerful’ US Border
1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘No price tag on safety’: Trump’s bold plan for a ‘strong and powerful’ US Border

Live Mint  

US President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his call for strengthening the country's borders while expressing a welcoming stance toward lawful immigration. Trump’s deporation plan sparks cost concerns Donald Trump’s proposed immigration plan to initiate what he describes as the “largest deportation effort in American history” would reportedly require a coordinated, “whole of government” approach with a potential price tag …

Donald Trump’s immigration policy would use local police to initiate mass deportations.
54 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump’s immigration policy would use local police to initiate mass deportations.

Slate  

The largest mass deportation in American history starts on Jan. 20. Expect a reprisal of controversial Trump-era policies like separating children from their parents at the border; the Remain in Mexico policy, which forced asylum-seekers to live in Mexico while awaiting a court date; the Muslim ban, which barred new arrivals from a handful of countries in the Middle East …

Pushed by public opinion shift, Democrats adopt immigration restrictions
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Pushed by public opinion shift, Democrats adopt immigration restrictions

NPR  

Pushed by public opinion shift, Democrats adopt immigration restrictions toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images When President Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021, he did what he had promised: he rescinded many of former President Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies. Sponsor Message Andrea Flores, who served as the director of border management on the National Security Council under …

The intelligent conversation we're not having on immigration
2 months, 2 weeks ago

The intelligent conversation we're not having on immigration

Salon  

Heading into November, Donald Trump’s rhetorical strategy on the economy is simple: Insist it is doomed, blame it on Kamala Harris and tie everything back to immigration. Overnight, Trump became chief enabler to the chief “criminals” he claimed were killing Americans, and his base didn’t even hear about it as Fox News called President Biden an “accessory to murder.” After …

Trump scares his followers with talk of "illegals," but border crossings are lowest in four years
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump scares his followers with talk of "illegals," but border crossings are lowest in four years

Salon  

During Donald Trump's press conference at his Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday, he pivoted from speaking points meant to focus on inflation to, once again, rattle off misinformation about Kamala Harris wanting to "end detention of illegal alien migrants, releasing vicious monsters into our communities to rape, maim and murder." Having made a habit out of scaring …

Trump’s hardline immigration policies in spotlight on day two of RNC
5 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s hardline immigration policies in spotlight on day two of RNC

Al Jazeera  

Republicans rally around former president’s agenda at National Convention in Milwaukee, days after rally shooting. Donald Trump’s hardline stance on immigration will be in the spotlight on the second day of the Republican National Convention, after the former United States president made his first public appearance since surviving an assassination attempt at the weekend. In an interview with FOX News …

Unauthorized migrants crossings have gone down significantly since executive actions
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Unauthorized migrants crossings have gone down significantly since executive actions

NPR  

Unauthorized migrants crossings have gone down significantly since executive actions ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: At the Southern border, the Department of Homeland Security says encounters with migrants crossing without authorization have gone down significantly in the last few weeks. NPR's immigration correspondent Jasmine Garsd has been reporting from the California-Mexico border, and she's there now. And then earlier this month, the …

As Biden and Trump both visit the border, how do their immigration policies compare?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

As Biden and Trump both visit the border, how do their immigration policies compare?

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Trump, who is due to visit the migrant hotspot of Eagle Pass, is …

Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, angling for advantage on immigration
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, angling for advantage on immigration

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S-Mexico border on Thursday, as both candidates try to turn the nation’s broken immigration system to their political advantage in an expected campaign rematch this year. Biden will travel to Brownsville, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, an area that often sees large numbers …

'Cleaned out, rounded up and deported': GOP lawmaker delivers eerie defense of Trump plan
10 months ago

'Cleaned out, rounded up and deported': GOP lawmaker delivers eerie defense of Trump plan

Raw Story  

A Republican lawmaker's defense of former President Donald Trump's mass deportation proposal boasts that the number of immigrants who would be "rounded up" equals the population of several U.S. States. Rep. Mike Waltz appeared Wednesday on the Fox Business Network to defend Trump and push back on host Stuart Varney's skepticism that ICE agents, along with the National Guard and …

Biden is considering executive action to make it HARDER for asylum seekers to get into the U.S. and speed up deportations to reverse historic rise in border crossings
10 months ago

Biden is considering executive action to make it HARDER for asylum seekers to get into the U.S. and speed up deportations to reverse historic rise in border crossings

Daily Mail  

President Joe Biden is now considering taking executive action to raise the standards used to process and screen asylum-seekers at the southern border. President Joe Biden is preparing to issue an executive order that would increase standards during 'credible fear interviews' for asylum seekers crossing the southern border The order, according to a Wednesday report, would adopt a 'last in, …

Democrats embrace tougher border enforcement, seeing Trump’s demolition of deal as a ‘gift’
10 months, 1 week ago

Democrats embrace tougher border enforcement, seeing Trump’s demolition of deal as a ‘gift’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s border proposal was one of the toughest bipartisan bills to emerge on the issue in decades. Schumer said the race in his home state of New York “says something very significant — that border is no longer the province of Republicans.” That calculation is already having far-reaching effects, transforming the way President Joe Biden and Democrats …

A Brief History Of Republicans Walking Away From Bipartisan Immigration Deals
10 months, 2 weeks ago

A Brief History Of Republicans Walking Away From Bipartisan Immigration Deals

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan compromise on immigration reform fell apart this week in the Senate as Republicans heeded former President Donald Trump’s advice to kill it. “You’re preying on people’s fears,” Loweree said, “and if you can do that successfully, there’s very little that can be done to bring somebody back from that.” In 2006 and 2013, …

Opinion: Playing ball on border bill comes back to bite Democrats
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Playing ball on border bill comes back to bite Democrats

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Danielle Campoamor is a freelance writer formerly of TODAY and NBC. Trump has continuously lambasted the legislation, claiming on his makeshift social media platform Truth Social that “only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill.” His sycophantic followers in the House and the Senate have, of course, followed suit, with Republicans …

Republicans rush to throw each other under the bus for Trump
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans rush to throw each other under the bus for Trump

Salon  

The Senate has unveiled a bipartisan immigration bill three decades in the making. Trump doesn’t want immigration solved this year because border legislation, if signed into law, could give President Biden bragging rights going into the November election. Speaker Mike Johnson, who spearheaded Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has therefore declared that the Senate’s new immigration proposal will …

Biden is left with few choices as immigration takes center stage in American politics
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden is left with few choices as immigration takes center stage in American politics

Associated Press  

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. “If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly,” Biden said last …

Republicans Invoking Border Crisis Now Oppose Plan To Fix It
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Republicans Invoking Border Crisis Now Oppose Plan To Fix It

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― For months, Republicans have shouted from the rooftops about a migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and how President Joe Biden needs to act to address it, insisting the flow of migrants is an urgent national security threat. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images In a statement last week, Biden called the deal the “toughest …

Opinion: By demonizing immigrants, U.S. betrays its ideals — and economic reality
11 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: By demonizing immigrants, U.S. betrays its ideals — and economic reality

LA Times  

Migrants walk along a highway in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico on Monday, during their journey north toward the U.S. border. Extinguish her torch welcoming from other nations “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” And forget the rhapsodizing we’ve long heard, from social-studies teachers and presidents including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, …

‘Political games’: Advocates vow to fight US border policy standoff
11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Political games’: Advocates vow to fight US border policy standoff

Al Jazeera  

Washington, DC – Military aid for Ukraine in exchange for stricter migration and asylum policies: That is the gambit put forward by Republicans in the United States Congress as they negotiate with Democrats over government spending. On Tuesday, demonstrators from dozens of advocacy groups gathered near the US Capitol for a “Save Asylum” campaign, where they appealed to lawmakers not …

Congress is eying immigration limits as GOP demands border changes in swap for Biden overseas aid
1 year ago

Congress is eying immigration limits as GOP demands border changes in swap for Biden overseas aid

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As record numbers of migrants surge at the southern U.S. border, many seeking asylum, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has told Congress the country’s “broken” immigration system is in need of a top-to-bottom update. When are we going to do this?’ And every year it’s gotten worse.” A core group of senators, Republicans and Democrats, has been eying …

Illegal border crossings are down. One big reason why is now part of a court fight
1 year, 5 months ago

Illegal border crossings are down. One big reason why is now part of a court fight

NPR  

Illegal border crossings are down. One big reason why is now part of a court fight Enlarge this image toggle caption Joel Rose/NPR Joel Rose/NPR The number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is lower than it's been since the first weeks of 2021 — and the Biden administration says its sharp limits on asylum at the border are …

Adult migrants are held in border facilities too long amid Biden administration policy changes, sources say
1 year, 5 months ago

Adult migrants are held in border facilities too long amid Biden administration policy changes, sources say

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden’s new asylum policy has contributed to migrants remaining in border facilities for more than 10 days and some for up to 30 days, multiple sources told CNN, as the administration toughens its posture on the US-Mexico border. Last week, of the more than 10,000 people in CBP custody, more than 1,000 of them had been …

Plunge in border crossings could blunt GOP attack on Biden
1 year, 9 months ago

Plunge in border crossings could blunt GOP attack on Biden

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A sharp drop in illegal border crossings since December could blunt a Republican point of attack against President Joe Biden as the Democratic leader moves to reshape a broken asylum system that has dogged him and his predecessors. The new rules put forth by Biden could help the president fight back against critics who complain he hasn’t …

Editorial: The GOP’s Mayorkas impeachment sideshow
1 year, 9 months ago

Editorial: The GOP’s Mayorkas impeachment sideshow

LA Times  

Rep. Ken Buck is seen during a House Judiciary Committee hearing to examine “The Situation At The Southern Border” at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 1. And indeed they have done just that starting with the wasteful and pointless exercise of gathering evidence to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his supposed mismanagement of U.S. border strategy. Articles of …

The dirty game Republicans are playing with desperate people's lives
2 years ago

The dirty game Republicans are playing with desperate people's lives

Raw Story  

Just a month ago we finished President Biden’s first midterm election and, as predictably as the sun rises in the east, right around election time and for the months afterward a wave of refugees and immigrants have shown up at our southern border. “You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders,” Raddatz said to Abbott, “but I …

Republicans bank on tough immigration line as US midterms near
2 years, 2 months ago

Republicans bank on tough immigration line as US midterms near

Al Jazeera  

Republicans are using anti-migrant rhetoric to redirect focus away from other issues before midterms, experts say. “Republicans are looking to immigration as their saviour from other issues on which they think they’re losing,” said David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank. Meanwhile, migrant advocates have mapped out hundreds of Republican election Many of …

US-Mexico border crossing arrests reach record highs: Reports
3 years, 2 months ago

US-Mexico border crossing arrests reach record highs: Reports

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration is facing growing criticism for its treatment of migrants seeking protection at its border. US authorities reportedly detained 1.7 million migrants trying to cross the US-Mexico border this fiscal year – marking an all-time high and highlighting the deepening political and humanitarian challenges the Biden administration is facing on immigration. The numbers emerged amid increasing pressure on …

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump
3 years, 3 months ago

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is expanding its effort to find and reunite migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump as part of a zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings. “We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again,” said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “But we …

Column: How the Border Patrol helped cause the ‘browning’ of America
3 years, 4 months ago

Column: How the Border Patrol helped cause the ‘browning’ of America

LA Times  

Lugging gallon jugs of water, migrants walk along footpaths just north of the Mexico-Arizona border in 2007. A recent Breitbart article — “Report: ‘Mostly’ Single Male Border Crossers Bussed to Louisiana Cities” — inspired comments such as “Their job is to vote communist democrat and rape women” and “They are REPLACING YOU, Louisiana.” Now for the irony: The people who …

Donald Trump says migrants cause ‘incalculable’ damage to US in exaggeration-filled border event
3 years, 5 months ago

Donald Trump says migrants cause ‘incalculable’ damage to US in exaggeration-filled border event

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump claimed “millions of migrants”, including “some of the …

AP PHOTOS: For migrants at border, both opportunity and risk
3 years, 8 months ago

AP PHOTOS: For migrants at border, both opportunity and risk

Associated Press  

For many Americans, the scenes unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border are visceral and jarring. A new U.S. president promised to dismantle his predecessor’s policies governing asylum seekers who arrive at the southern border. Unlike the Trump administration, President Joe Biden has chosen not to expel immigrant children — like the unaccompanied 7-year-old girl from Honduras photographed in Texas this week …

Biden vows action on migrants as he defends border policy
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden vows action on migrants as he defends border policy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will take steps to more quickly move hundreds of migrant children and teens out of cramped detention facilities along the Southwest border, President Joe Biden said Thursday. Pressed repeatedly on the border issue at his first news conference since taking office, Biden said his administration was taking steps to address the situation with measures such as …

VP Harris to Tackle US Border Influx: How Difficult is The Job?
3 years, 8 months ago

VP Harris to Tackle US Border Influx: How Difficult is The Job?

The Quint  

The new Biden administration has been under flak from critics, with both Republicans, as well as Democrats warning of a “burgeoning humanitarian crisis” as an increasing number of migrant children try to enter the US. Republicans have also blamed Biden, saying that the migrant crisis at the Mexican border worsened once he started rolling back Trump’s policies. Citing agency data, …

VP Harris says US border problems won’t be solved ‘overnight’
3 years, 9 months ago

VP Harris says US border problems won’t be solved ‘overnight’

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration is grappling with an increase of unaccompanied minors crossing the US southern border. United States Vice President Kamala Harris has called a recent wave of unaccompanied children crossing the country’s southern border from Mexico a “huge problem”, but said it would not be solved “overnight”. “I’m not gonna pretend it’s not.” Since Biden’s inauguration, the US has …

Biden administration faces pressure on immigration amid influx
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden administration faces pressure on immigration amid influx

Al Jazeera  

Republicans say President Joe Biden’s new policies on the US-Mexico border are encouraging more migrants to come. “So don’t leave your town or city or community.” Since taking office in January, Biden has been working to restructure the US immigration system and overturn many of Trump’s hardline policies. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is secure and the border …

Biden's Immigration Policy Takes Heat as Migrant Levels Soar
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden's Immigration Policy Takes Heat as Migrant Levels Soar

News 18  

US President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure Monday from Republicans over his handling of a surge in migrants — including thousands of unaccompanied children — arriving at the US-Mexican border. On January 20, his first day in office, Biden scrapped several of Trump’s contentious immigration policies, including halting new construction of a border wall and proposing legislation to create a …

California’s McCarthy and other Republicans slam Biden immigration policies at border
3 years, 9 months ago

California’s McCarthy and other Republicans slam Biden immigration policies at border

LA Times  

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California and a dozen of his colleagues denounced the Biden administration’s handling of immigration at the southwest border and called for congressional action during a visit Monday to Texas. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas told reporters that U.S. Border Patrol agents “are doing God’s work keeping our border safe.” Ahead of Monday’s news conference, …

US Immigration: Nancy Pelosi says Joe Biden trying to correct Donald Trump's 'broken system'
3 years, 9 months ago

US Immigration: Nancy Pelosi says Joe Biden trying to correct Donald Trump's 'broken system'

Daily Mail  

Nancy Pelosi on Sunday blamed Donald Trump for the growing crisis at the southern border under Joe Biden, including a massive overflow in detention facilities as the president promises asylum for all those seeking it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the exponentially growing southern border crisis is not President Joe Biden's fault, instead blaming Donald Trump for handing down a …

'The Border Is Not Open': Biden Administration Seeks Foreign Aid To Slow Migration
3 years, 9 months ago

'The Border Is Not Open': Biden Administration Seeks Foreign Aid To Slow Migration

NPR  

'The Border Is Not Open': Biden Administration Seeks Foreign Aid To Slow Migration Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty Images The Biden administration is making a new push to address the causes of migration from Central America as it faces a surge at the southern border. After four years of Trump's enforcement-focused policies, the Biden administration …

Biden’s bind: Dismantling Trump immigration policies without sparking a border rush
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden’s bind: Dismantling Trump immigration policies without sparking a border rush

LA Times  

A day after an SUV packed with migrants crashed in Imperial County last week, leaving 13 dead, police in southern Mexico encountered a disturbing scene: more than 200 U.S.-bound Central Americans, a quarter of them children without adult supervision, crammed inside a tractor trailer. “There has been an erroneous perception on the part of many migrants that it is going …

Biden team seeks to let separated migrant families stay in US
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden team seeks to let separated migrant families stay in US

Al Jazeera  

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said establishing a more humane policy at the US southern border is going to take time. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blasted the previous administration under President Donald Trump which separated more than 5,400 children from their parents under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. “And if, in fact, they seek to reunite here in the United States, we …

Immigration: Biden administration braces for new wave of migrants as it rolls out new immigration plans
3 years, 11 months ago

Immigration: Biden administration braces for new wave of migrants as it rolls out new immigration plans

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Joe Biden plans to immediately begin the rollout of his immigration agenda upon taking office Wednesday, but the new administration will also have to contend with migrants already on the US-Mexico border, as well as those on their way. But while Biden has pledged to take a more humane approach to those arriving at the US southern …

Report: Management of Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy failed
3 years, 11 months ago

Report: Management of Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy failed

Al Jazeera  

Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 “zero tolerance” border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other agencies became overwhelmed with migrants, a government watchdog report released on Thursday has found. The report found that one of the administration’s talking points was: “An illegal alien should not get a free …

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