Trump administration orders federal agencies to reunite families at border
- 6 years ago
The Trump administration is taking its first steps to begin reuniting more than two thousand undocumented migrant children and parents separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Trump said Thursday that he had directed the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to work on bringing together the separated families.
It's a first step to implementing his policy-reversing executive order which states that migrant families entering the U.S. should be detained together.
The order still faces possible legal challenges and administration lawyers have filed a request to modify a previous court settlement that limits the government's detention of minors to 20 days.
However, Trump still insisted tougher immigration laws were needed and blamed the Democrats for creating what he called loopholes in the current system.
President Trump said Thursday that he had directed the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to work on bringing together the separated families.
It's a first step to implementing his policy-reversing executive order which states that migrant families entering the U.S. should be detained together.
The order still faces possible legal challenges and administration lawyers have filed a request to modify a previous court settlement that limits the government's detention of minors to 20 days.
However, Trump still insisted tougher immigration laws were needed and blamed the Democrats for creating what he called loopholes in the current system.