Report: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Drafting Order to End Family Separation; Will Trump Sign?
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This is from the AP, reporting from sources, and it’s all very new:
BREAKING: AP Sources: Homeland Security secretary drafting order to end family separation at border; unclear if Trump will sign it.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 20, 2018
At the moment, this is more confusing than anything, because the policy change came from the top down, and now it at least appears that those at Homeland Security are trying to change it from the bottom up. It may be that the pressure got to Kirstjen Nielsen—she has been the face of Trump’s child separation policy for the last few days, and the public reaction has been swift and severe. She even had her dinner interrupted Tuesday night by DSA activists.
On the question of whether Trump will sign, there’s this second ambiguous tweet from the AP:
BREAKING: Trump says he’ll be “signing something” on immigration, wants to keep migrant families together.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 20, 2018
It could very well be that he’s going to sign Nielsen’s order to end family separation. We’ll update as the story develops.