NewsApril 10, 2019
Trump: Not reinstating family separation policy
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's not looking to reinstate the much-criticized practice of separating migrant families at the border with Mexico. But he added many more migrants are streaming toward the U.S. through Mexico because the practice is no longer in place...
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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's not looking to reinstate the much-criticized practice of separating migrant families at the border with Mexico. But he added many more migrants are streaming toward the U.S. through Mexico because the practice is no longer in place.
"I'm the one that stopped it," he said.
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Trump claimed his predecessor, President Barack Obama, is the one who separated children from their families.
Trump ended the practice under pressure last year after footage of scores of migrant children housed in fenced-off cages at border facilities was broadcast widely. Trump's allies are pressing for a harder line on immigration after he cleaned house at the Homeland Security Department.
Trump said "once you don't have it," meaning the family separation policy, "that's why you see many more people coming."
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