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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will stop prosecuting migrant parents who cross the border illegally with children until immigration authorities have the resources that would allow them to be held in custody, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will welcome King Abdullah of Jordan to the White House on June 25, the White House said in a statement on Thursday.
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 Customs and Border Protection is announcing a new practice aimed at keeping families apprehended at the border together following President Donald Trump's executive order.
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 Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily BeastSomebody got to Kirstjen Nielsen to make her the defiant cheerleader for the most inhumane government policy since Japanese internment.
It was just weeks ago that on the issues of separating families at the border Nielsen was more on the side of Mrs. Trump than Mr. Trump. But that was before she learned that showing any ambivalence about zero tolerance and all it entailed was the wrong side to be on. After a tongue-lashing from Trump the likes of which staffers in the room had never seen, she considered resigning, according to friends, but buckled to his will instead.
She had as her example in this her former boss and mentor, Gen. John Kelly, whose family she joins for holiday dinners. He sold his soul when he took to the press room podium and cited his own son's death to deflect criticism from Trump's smearing of a Gold Star family.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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President Trump said he wanted to keep immigrant families together — but still detain them. He will probably need approval from a court or Congress.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastOne night after Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen conducted a press conference defending the forcible separation of immigrant children from their families, a member of Washington, D.C.'s Democratic Socialists of America chapter received a text from a friend.
"A member got a text saying ‘Kirstjen Nielsen is eating nachos like ten feet from me,'" Allison Hrabar, a spokesperson for the Metro DC DSA told The Daily Beast.
Less than 30 minutes later, about a dozen members of DSA were inside MXDC Cocina Mexicana, shouting at Nielsen while she tried to eat her Mexican dinner.
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