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Jun 19 2018
Headline Roundup
Trump Defends Family-Separation Policy
President Trump defended his family-separation border policy as a growing number of Republicans criticized it for separating children from their families.
The Daily Caller


Jul 01 2018
Headline Roundup
Nationwide Protests Against Immigrant Family Separation
Thousands of protesters marched in cities across the United States on Saturday calling for an end to the separation of immigrant families at the border. These protests come after President Trump's June 20 executive order that says families will now be detained together.
The Blaze


Jun 18 2018
Headline Roundup
Outrage Grows Over Separating Families at the Border
The battle over children being separated from their parents at the border is spilling over into another week, as Laura Bush and Melania Trump speak out.
CBN


May 27 2018
Headline Roundup
Trump Calls for End to Policy of Separating Immigrant Families
President Trump tweeted on Saturday to "put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law" that separates immigrant children from their parents. Publications on the Left have argued that Trump's attacks on Democrats are unfounded, since the policy comes from the Trump administration's Justice Department. Those on the Right have said that the "zero-tolerance" policy was put into place to
Fox News (Online News)


Nov 05 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden Dismisses Idea Of Paying $450,000 To Immigrant Families Separated At Border
President Joe Biden on Wednesday dismissed a report from The Wall Street Journal that suggested his administration is considering paying immigrant families who were separated at the southern border around $450,000 a person, calling the story "garbage" and saying "that's not gonna happen." A White House spokeswoman later clarified that the president is “perfectly comfortable” with paying
New York Post (News)


Oct 30 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden Considers Paying $450,000 To Family Members Separated At Southern Border
President Joe Biden is considering paying immigrant families who were separated at the southern border around $450,000 a person, or around $1 million a family.
While negotiations between the Biden administration and lawyers representing the families might not be over until the end of November, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the potential settlements could be much smaller.
New York Post (News)


Apr 09 2019
Headline Roundup
Trump Denies Reports That He Will Reinstate Family Separations, Blames Obama for Policy
President Trump denied reports that he planned to revive family separations at the border and renewed claims that former President Obama was responsible for the policy. Several fact-checkers have criticized that claim: Although previous administrations did have small numbers of family separations, they did not have a blanket rule requiring that all parents be prosecuted, and thus did not have
New York Times (News)


Jun 20 2018
Headline Roundup
President Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Family Separation at the Border
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending family separations at the border, mandating that parents and children caught crossing illegally be detained together.
USA TODAY


Aug 23 2019
News
Democrat Hypocrisy on Family Separation at the Border
Last year, the Democrats portrayed President Trump as a monster for authorizing an immigration policy under which border authorities separated some children from the “families” with which they had illegally entered the country. Ignoring the inconvenient fact that many of the people from whose arms these kids were “so cruelly torn” weren’t parents or relatives, they compared the president to
The American Spectator
Jun 19 2018
News
Trump Defends Family-Separation Policy
The Trump administration sought to blame Congress for the new policy of separating some families who arrive at the U.S. southern border, and it said only lawmakers could change that policy as part of a broader immigration overhaul, but Republicans and Democrats remained far apart on any deal.
Wall Street Journal (News)