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President Trump signals he'll sign executive order on family separations at border
Fox 26 -Houston ^ | 6/20/18

Posted on 06/20/2018 9:25:19 AM PDT by Blue House Sue

WASHINGTON - (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together after they are detained crossing the border illegally. She was at the White House where Trump told reporters he would be "signing something" shortly.

The effort to end what has become a major crisis for the Trump administration was outlined by two people familiar with Nielsen's thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the effort before its official announcement.

It's unclear exactly what the president might be supporting, but he said he would be signing something "in a little while."

(Excerpt) Read more at fox26houston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: immigration
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To: cowboyusa
He’s running rings around them.

He's proving he can solve problems that previous Presidents could not.

21 posted on 06/20/2018 9:36:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: chris37

Paging Admiral Akbar!


22 posted on 06/20/2018 9:36:34 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: cp124

Nothing he does will suit the screamers and dreamers. Stop trying to appease the rabid mob and follow the law as written until a new law comes along.


23 posted on 06/20/2018 9:36:59 AM PDT by Hartlyboy
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To: Magnum44

We don’t have the facilities, we’ll be going back to catch and release into the USA, never to be seen again.

The policy is working.
Illegal aliens not yet here are reconsidering.
Word had spread that bringing kids got you in, now word is spreading that you’ll be arrested and detained and separated.


24 posted on 06/20/2018 9:37:49 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Blue House Sue

Two alternatives to what they are doing now to adults caught sneaking in with kids:

1) Let them go free(AKA Catch and Release)
2) Imprison the kids with the parents till court resolution

Dem and the MSM will only accept #1.


25 posted on 06/20/2018 9:37:52 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: forgotten man

CBS cut into programming to cover Trump and the Cabinet (I think) talking about it. Somebody said that a court case, Flores vs somebody, mandated that they be separated. So yeah a lawsuit is not out of the question. Because they demanded he do something immediately, and he did something immediately.


26 posted on 06/20/2018 9:38:05 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Blue House Sue

America!
Make up a lie.
Throw a big enough tantrum.
Get your way!


27 posted on 06/20/2018 9:38:12 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Hartlyboy

New law on Thursday. Make it big enough no one can read it and we can get everything we want in the immigration bill. It’s not like it hasn’t been discussed endlessly. Write it ALL down and pass it.


28 posted on 06/20/2018 9:39:22 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Blue House Sue

Do it now, do it with fanfare, get it off the elections table.


29 posted on 06/20/2018 9:39:24 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Like I said, wait and see what this EO actually says and does...


30 posted on 06/20/2018 9:39:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Like I said, wait and see what this EO actually says and does...


31 posted on 06/20/2018 9:39:30 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Blue House Sue

Easy.. SEND THEM BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM

They want asylum? Come in through legal entry points.


32 posted on 06/20/2018 9:40:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Bryanw92
RE:”IF* Trump does this and *IF* it stands up, the pivot by liberals from “stop breaking up families” to “STOP HOLDING FAMILIES” will be made with breathtaking dispatch.”
Good!
Contrary to what they believe, the Memory Hole does not exist yet.”

You werent paying attention to all the backflips they did on North Korea?

33 posted on 06/20/2018 9:40:30 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: The Toll

As a practical matter, Trump has to do this. Regardless, it’s bad optics, and the public will never get the true facts. Just Democrat and Media histeria right now. Trump is definitely growing in his job. Dont agree with everything he does, but he has been solid on the big picture, important things. Art of the deal.


34 posted on 06/20/2018 9:40:46 AM PDT by gswilder
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To: jiggyboy
Yeah, then they'll say the invader spawn are Dreamers and they should be given citizenship. An executive order to keep families together, in custody, cuts the argument off from sliding further downhill.

Aren't most of the children in custody unaccompanied? They'll still be in custody.

35 posted on 06/20/2018 9:41:36 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: forgotten man

Then that will prove he was following the law, Dems want him to break the law instead of doing their damn jobs and legislating.


36 posted on 06/20/2018 9:42:04 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: jiggyboy

If they keep families together they violate the law, unless they can process those cases in 20 days or less.... So better hire a bunch of new immigration judges... otherwise its back to just letting them run rampant


37 posted on 06/20/2018 9:42:22 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: gswilder

They will just make up another lie.
Throw another tantrum.
Get their way.

Ask the Americans that formerly ran businesses making Bump-Stocks.


38 posted on 06/20/2018 9:42:43 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Mr. K

“They want asylum? Come in through legal entry points.”

Aren’t they doing exactly that?

Entering the U.S. at an official border crossing, checking in with U.S. immigration, and applying for asylum?


39 posted on 06/20/2018 9:44:03 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: pepsi_junkie
But Trump is a strategist and rather than concede inevitable defeat he found a third choice: write an EO to stop this, tell congress "no bill needed, I fixed it" and then wait for the courts to overturn it.

Who is going to take it to court?

40 posted on 06/20/2018 9:45:34 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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