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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 5:13 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving her post, President Trump announced Sunday as he continues to focus on restricting border crossings amid a recent surge. Nielsen had recently warned a congressional panel of a \"catastrophe\" on the southern border after the number of crossings hit a 10-year high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump confirmed the news in a tweet, saying, \"I would like to thank her for her service.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1115011884154064896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said Kevin McAleenan, the current commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, would serve as acting secretary. The change at the top comes with other uncertainty over management at the Department of Homeland Security. The president on Friday dropped his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ronald Vitiello, telling reporters, \"We want to go in a tougher direction.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's own response to the situation at the border in recent days has been frenetic. First, he threatened to close the southern border as soon as last week. Then, he backed off that threat and issued a new one, saying he would put hefty tariffs on cars made in Mexico if the country did not do more to stop the flow of migrants as well as drugs coming north. He gave Mexico a \"one-year warning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often the primary person working to turn Trump's harsh immigration rhetoric into policy, Nielsen was under intense scrutiny. As recently as March, she faced tough questioning from House Democrats over the treatment of migrants, especially children, at the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen was Trump's second secretary of homeland security, taking over the cabinet post in December 2017 after John Kelly became White House chief of staff. Nielsen had worked as a top aide to Kelly at both DHS and the White House. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her tenure was marked throughout by tensions with Trump, who reportedly lashed out at her several times because illegal border crossings have not been stopped. Nielsen faced more public pressure after the Trump administration enacted a policy of family separation that resulted in thousands of migrant children being separated from their parents, which the president ultimately reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1115027149054992384\">her resignation letter posted on Twitter\u003c/a>, Nielsen alluded to her rocky tenure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1115027149054992384\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite our progress in reforming homeland security for a new age, I have determined that it is the right time for me to step aside,\" wrote Nielsen. \"I hope that the next Secretary will have the support of Congress and the courts in fixing the laws that have impeded our ability to fully secure America's borders and have contributed to discord in our nation's discourse.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, who have been critical of Nielsen's actions at DHS throughout her time there, said her departure showed that Trump's immigration policy was too extreme. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When even the most radical voices in the administration aren't radical enough for President Trump, you know he's completely lost touch with the American people,\" said Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Through lies, misdirection and rationalizations, Nielsen defended the indefensible and presided over policies, including family separation, that will live in infamy,\" Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a pro-immigration group, said in a statement. Sharry added that he does not expect the administration to back off its hardline approach to immigration policy.\u003cem> \"\u003c/em>While she will not be missed, we have no illusions that her replacement will usher in a brighter day at DHS.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facing a 'Breaking Point'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of migrants apprehended at the border jumped to more than 100,000 last month, the biggest monthly total in more than a decade. As the weather warms up, immigration authorities warn that the flow of migrants crossing the border will continue to grow, possibly reaching as high as 150,000 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While illegal border crossings are still far below the highs seen two decades ago, administration officials have warned that the current surge has led to a humanitarian crisis and put the immigration system at a \"breaking point.\"[aside tag='family-separation' label='Family Separation at the Border']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the majority of migrants arriving now are families and children fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. Unlike individual migrants looking for work, many of these migrants are seeking asylum and must be allowed to pursue their claims in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmed by the influx, Customs and Border Protection has begun releasing more families with a notice to appear in immigration court instead of first handing them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for processing and detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen tried to shift resources within her department to help with processing the migrants, and last week appointed a Border Patrol veteran to serve as coordinator of the department's response to the \"border crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be clear with the American people: there is an unprecedented emergency at the southern border, and DHS is leading a true government-wide emergency response,\" Nielsen said in a statement announcing the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also joined President Trump in calling on Congress to close what they call \"loopholes\" in immigration law to make it easier to detain and deport migrant families and kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Defense With Trump — and For Him\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her tenure, Trump blamed Nielsen for an inability to get Congress to fully fund a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico, even though she was not involved in the spending deal Trump reached with congressional leaders earlier in 2018. The border wall funding question led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679424044/government-shuts-down-ahead-of-holiday-over-stalemate-on-border-wall-funding\">a stalemate that caused the longest partial government shutdown \u003c/a>in U.S. history — with the president following through on his earlier threats not to sign critical spending bills unless he gets what he deems sufficient funding for his border wall and with congressional Democrats rejecting any legislation that would provide such funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats and immigration advocates also criticized Nielsen for policies she advocated that actively sought to separate children from their parents at the border, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621875523/shame-protesters-shout-at-dhs-head-kirstjen-nielsen-eating-at-mexican-restaurant\">a protest\u003c/a> inside a Mexican restaurant in Washington where the secretary was eating dinner last June. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law says if you cross between the ports of entry, you are entering without inspection and that is a crime,\" Nielsen said, defending herself in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/610113364/transcript-homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsens-full-interview-with-npr\">interview with NPR's John Burnett\u003c/a> in May 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our policy has not changed in that if you break the law, we will refer you for prosecution,\" she added. \"What that means, however, is if you are single adult, if you are part of a family, if you are pregnant, if you have any other condition, you're an adult and you break the law, we will refer you. Operationally what that means is we will have to separate your family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621798823/speaker-ryan-plans-immigration-votes-amid-doubts-that-bills-can-pass\">backed away\u003c/a> from that policy after a public outcry and in light of court rulings — just days after Nielsen had mounted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/620972542/we-do-not-have-a-policy-of-separating-families-dhs-secretary-nielsen-says\">vigorous public defense\u003c/a> of the controversial policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen had to defend Trump on other issues, too. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2018, a little over a month after she was sworn in as DHS secretary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/16/trump-shithole-dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-testify-341179\">Nielsen testified to a Senate panel\u003c/a> that she had not heard Trump describe some African nations as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/12/577598401/in-morning-tweet-trump-denies-calling-african-countries-by-a-vulgar-slur\">\"shithole countries,\"\u003c/a> although she conceded that he had used \"tough language\" in a meeting on immigration issues that included members of Congress who insisted Trump had, in fact, used the pejorative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, in response to a reporter's question, she said she \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/dhs-secretary-nielsen-not-aware-intel-report-russian-meddling-election-n876491\">\"was not aware of\"\u003c/a> reports from U.S. intelligence agencies that concluded that the Russian government actively tried to swing the 2016 presidential election to Trump and away from Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen's characterization of the foreign interference threat to U.S. elections evolved: \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/f5ccdfb4c285447f81da5c7d7d61765c\">She later said\u003c/a> that although it continued to happen, it was not taking place with the same intensity as it had in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS and other agencies released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/11/05/joint-statement-election-day-preparations\">statement\u003c/a> ahead of Election Day 2018 that said the focus of foreign influence operations was on disinformation via social media platforms and less on cyberattacks aimed at stealing embarrassing information about political targets or disrupting the actual working of elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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Unlike individual migrants looking for work, many of these migrants are seeking asylum and must be allowed to pursue their claims in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmed by the influx, Customs and Border Protection has begun releasing more families with a notice to appear in immigration court instead of first handing them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for processing and detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen tried to shift resources within her department to help with processing the migrants, and last week appointed a Border Patrol veteran to serve as coordinator of the department's response to the \"border crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to be clear with the American people: there is an unprecedented emergency at the southern border, and DHS is leading a true government-wide emergency response,\" Nielsen said in a statement announcing the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also joined President Trump in calling on Congress to close what they call \"loopholes\" in immigration law to make it easier to detain and deport migrant families and kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Defense With Trump — and For Him\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her tenure, Trump blamed Nielsen for an inability to get Congress to fully fund a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico, even though she was not involved in the spending deal Trump reached with congressional leaders earlier in 2018. 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"content": "\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday joined the growing chorus of critics demanding that the Trump administration end its zero-tolerance policy of separating families that cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, saying in a letter that the practice \"is contrary to American values and must be stopped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED and NPR\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675630/we-do-not-have-a-policy-of-separating-families-dhs-head-says-contradicting-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defiant Homeland Security Secretary Defends Family Separations\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675805/congressional-democrats-tour-san-diego-immigration-detention-facilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Democrats Tour San Diego Immigration Detention Facilities\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11675309/marchers-protest-texas-tent-encampment-holding-detained-immigrant-boys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marchers Protest Against Texas Tent Encampment Holding Detained Immigrant Boys\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Becerra and 20 other Democratic attorneys general signed on to the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/AG%20Ltr%20to%20AG%20Sessions%20%26%20Sec.%20Nielsen%20re%20Family%20Separation%206.19.18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, demanding that the federal government \"immediately cease these draconian practices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, the letter states that the Trump administration's policy may violate international, state and federal laws and is not only harming children but preventing the attorneys general from prosecuting international crimes such as human trafficking and gang violence that require the cooperation of victims and survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the letter focuses most on the harm these separations are causing the children and the rights afforded to minors under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental rights of children are expressed in international, federal and state bodies of law,\" the letter states. \"Almost universally, the statutory mandates and the litany of cases interpreting them overwhelmingly express that a child's best interests are served by remaining with his or her family, absent a rigorous judicial inquiry resulting in a finding that a parent is unfit or proof beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has been committed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separating children from their parents without that due diligence, the letter states, would \"be illegal under most state laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion that a the government should intrude into the rights of a parent to be with their child has historically been met with extremely high levels of scrutiny,\" the letter continues. \"The deliberate separation of families for the express purpose of furthering an immigration policy is contrary to our laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Tuesday, University of California President Janet Napolitano -- who led the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama -- called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, citing what she called the \"humanitarian crisis\" on the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Napolitano said that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/us/politics/republicans-immigration-votes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two immigration bills set to be voted on in the House of Representatives this week\u003c/a> \"fall far short of a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system and, most important, are contrary to our nation’s values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those bills would cut legal immigration and is considered too conservative to pass. The other could garner more support from moderate Republicans because it includes a path to citizenship for so-called Dreamers, young people who were brought to the country as children and received temporary protection under Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/19/trump-wants-to-change-house-republican-immigration-bills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">those bills could change\u003c/a> as Republicans continue to talk to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:35 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is continuing to defend the Trump administration's controversial \"zero tolerance\" policy that results in separating children from their parents who enter the U.S. illegally. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen appeared at the White House press briefing on Monday, falsely blaming Democrats for the current crisis and arguing that the impetus is on Congress to pass a law to close legal loopholes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What has changed is that we no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law,\" Nielsen said at one point, even while making a contradictory claim that the administration has not changed its policy and is simply enforcing the current law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here is the bottom line: DHS is no longer ignoring the law,\" Nielsen asserted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/\">many fact-checkers have found\u003c/a>, there is no such law requiring children to be separated from their parents if they illegally cross the border. And Republicans control Congress, not Democrats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why Trump himself won't immediately reverse the policy — which she continued to deny changed — Nielsen said that the president wants \"a long-term fix.\" However, later in the briefing press secretary Sarah Sanders wouldn't say whether any legislation Congress may pass to rectify the situation would have to include full funding for the border wall Trump wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also said it was \"cowardly\" of Democrats to claim that children were being used as leverage for the wall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The children are not being used as a pawn,\" Nielsen said, arguing that it was \"smugglers and traffickers\" who were using them to try to get into the country illegally. \"We are trying to protect the children, which is why I'm asking Congress to act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a country of compassion. We are a country of heart,\" she added. \"We must fix the system so that those who truly need asylum can in fact receive it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when asked if the stringent policy was being enforced to send a message of deterrence for others who may consider trying to cross the border illegally, Nielsen said she found such a suggestion \"offensive.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But White House chief of staff John Kelly, who previously led DHS, told NPR's John Burnett in an interview last month that family separation \"would be a tough deterrent.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not bad people. They're coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws. But a big name of the game is deterrence,\" Kelly told NPR. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen had previously defended the policy in a series of tweets on Sunday night; earlier in the weekend, her agency said it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620451012/dhs-nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-adults-at-border-in-six-weeks\">separated nearly 2,000 children\u003c/a> from adults over the course of six weeks at the U.S. southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1008467103857463298\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility,\" President Trump said midday on Monday, after blaming Democrats for current U.S. immigration policy. He added, \"Not on my watch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immigration is the fault — and all of the problems that we're having — because we cannot get them to sign legislation, we cannot get them even to the negotiating table. And I say it's very strongly the Democrats' fault,\" Trump said. \"They're obstruction. They're really obstructionist, and they are obstructing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have struggled to figure out how to discuss the separation policy that many say they oppose. Several Senate Republicans pushed back on the White House policy, but most stopped short of directly criticizing Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, said Monday that he agrees with Nielsen that it is up to Congress to pass a long-term legislative fix to keep families together at the border. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's true,\" Cornyn said. \"The only thing the White House changed was their enforcement policy. They said we're going to enforce the law against everybody who comes into the country illegally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn was one of a number of Republicans who said the choice today comes down to a decision between enforcing laws separating children from parents who are charged with crimes and ignoring those laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn said there are other laws that require children to be taken care of separately from parents who violate laws. He said he thinks the solution should be to keep families together while they await an expedited hearing before an immigration judge. Cornyn said he plans to introduce legislation to keep children with their parents, but he would not commit to timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Republicans, like Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, disagree. Hatch was among those to denounce the policy on Twitter early in the day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1008714648504487936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went further Monday night, telling reporters that he believes the White House can stop families from being separated and that removing children from parents is not the right way to deter people from attempting to cross the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the White House can fix it if they want to,\" Hatch said. \"I don't think there's any question about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatch said a legislative fix is an option, and Congress should lead but the current situation should not be allowed to continue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way it's being handled right now isn't acceptable,\" Hatch said. \"I think we've got to try and keep families together and do whatever it takes to keep them together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lisamurkowski/status/1008835652534919169\">said Monday night on Twitter\u003c/a> that, \"The time is now for the White House to end the cruel, tragic separations of families... To blame the previous administrations for a wrong committed today is not acceptable. The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security should make the call today.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats were forceful in pushing back at the administrations claims, with several, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii calling on Nielsen to resign. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1008784431694241792\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, throughout the day on Monday, Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the president's policy of splitting children from the adults who brought them into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents, you can be sure of that,\" Sessions said. \"If we build the wall, we pass some legislation, we close some loopholes, we won't face these terrible choices.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen said the separations are warranted in cases where the parents have broken U.S. law by entering the country illegally — and that her agency is treating them no differently from how the government treats parents who break any other laws. But the Trump administration is being accused of handling the cases in a way no other presidency has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart,\" former first lady Laura Bush said in remarks published Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush wrote an opinion piece for \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> in which she compared the DHS actions to the U.S. policy of incarcerating Japanese-Americans in camps during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First lady Melania Trump also weighed in over the weekend, with her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/17/politics/melania-trump-children-separated-immigration/index.html\">a statement to CNN\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,\" the statement read, concluding, \"She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS policy triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589079243/activists-outraged-that-u-s-border-agents-separate-immigrant-families\">a lawsuit in February\u003c/a>; nearly a year earlier, members of the Trump administration had floated the idea of separating families \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/615010170/how-the-trump-administrations-family-separation-policy-is-playing-out\">as a potential deterrent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of high-profile Trump officials have spoken in favor of the policy. Last month, Sessions said, \"If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions spoke on Monday at the National Sheriffs' Association conference in New Orleans, where he received a lifetime achievement award. In his speech, the attorney general said the U.S. is having \"an important conversation\" over whether it will be \"a country of laws\" or \"a country without borders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason people voted for President Trump was \"to end the lawlessness at our southern border,\" Sessions said, adding, \"It's within our grasp. We can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions said that a loophole in U.S. policy had encouraged people to bring children to the U.S., under the belief that they would not be prosecuted. That resulted in a spike in illegal crossings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents,\" Sessions said. \"We do not want adults to bring children into this country unlawfully, either, placing those children at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also spoke at the conference, before returning to Washington where she briefed reporters at the delayed White House briefing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing how the DHS and Health and Human Services agencies handle those children, Sessions said, \"They're not put in jail, of course – they're taken care of. They remain in the country, even though they don't have a lawful process to be here.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions added, \"That's an enormous cost that's being incurred by our government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash against the Trump administration's tactic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620813068/hundreds-march-to-texas-tent-city-holding-detained-immigrant-kids\">grew into a protest march\u003c/a> on Sunday, with hundreds of people heading to a tent city in the town of Tornillo, near El Paso, Texas, where children have been detained. The Father's Day march was organized by Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, who is challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz introduced a bill to prohibit family separations on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than 10,000 children are currently in shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published a guide for families who have been separated after parents or guardians were charged with illegal entry, noting that children who are taken into government custody are transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, \"where your child will be held in a temporary child shelter or hosted by a foster family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide sheet adds, \"DHS and HHS can take steps to facilitate reunification with your child(ren).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/609480137/homeland-security-secretary-defends-separating-families-of-illegal-border-crosse\">Nielsen told NPR\u003c/a> that her agency is merely enforcing existing laws, and that criticism of the zero tolerance policy \"is inappropriate and unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has not stopped what has now become a wave of criticism for the DHS policy of applying the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Religious leaders are speaking out against the policy, with Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski saying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620611526/religious-groups-criticize-trump-immigration-policies\">NPR's Weekend Edition\u003c/a> that the practice effectively \"weaponizes\" children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and a prominent Trump supporter, told the Christian Broadcasting Network \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620651574/faith-leaders-oppose-trumps-immigration-policy-of-separating-children-from-paren\">on Tuesday\u003c/a>, \"It's disgraceful and it's terrible to see families ripped apart, and I don't support that one bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her tweets Sunday night, Nielsen accused others of distorting reality, saying, \"This misreporting by Members, press & advocacy groups must stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS secretary added, \"if you are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and illegally cross between ports of entry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/12/414023967/obama-immigrant-detention-policies-under-fire\">The Obama administration\u003c/a> also came under fire for its immigration and detention policies, with lawsuits over the practice of holding families in detention centers as well as the conditions at such facilities. By embracing a more hard-line policy, the Trump administration has set off speculation that it's using the threat of separating families as both a deterrent to immigrants and a political tool in the hopes of reshaping U.S. laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have many people in the Trump administration denying that they're using this as some sort of political leverage,\" NPR's Scott Detrow reports. \"But President Trump is leaning into that pretty hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1008511869970255872\">Trump tweeted\u003c/a>, \"The Democrats should get together with their Republican counterparts and work something out on Border Security & Safety. Don't wait until after the election because you are going to lose!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the president added, \"Why don't the Democrats give us the votes to fix the world's worst immigration laws?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/621103396/house-gop-immigration-bill-would-modify-but-not-end-child-detentions\">House Republicans have introduced a bill \u003c/a>to end the practice of separating families, but it would also require Democrats to agree to federal funds for a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that argument plays out, others are urging a new attempt to address the root causes of mass migration from people who want to flee troubled or impoverished conditions in countries such as El Salvador to Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas tells NPR's Steve Inskeep:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's different elements of the government that don't understand what's really going on. Kids are being separated from their parents. In the last two months, there's been about 2,000. The previous about year, it was almost 700. And 100 of those kids were under the age of 4.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurd added, \"This is just absolutely unacceptable. Taking kids from their mothers is not preventing terrorists or drugs from coming into this country. And so, why we would even think that this is a tool that is needed to defend our borders is insane to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Danny Nett and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility,\" President Trump said midday on Monday, after blaming Democrats for current U.S. immigration policy. He added, \"Not on my watch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immigration is the fault — and all of the problems that we're having — because we cannot get them to sign legislation, we cannot get them even to the negotiating table. And I say it's very strongly the Democrats' fault,\" Trump said. \"They're obstruction. They're really obstructionist, and they are obstructing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have struggled to figure out how to discuss the separation policy that many say they oppose. Several Senate Republicans pushed back on the White House policy, but most stopped short of directly criticizing Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, said Monday that he agrees with Nielsen that it is up to Congress to pass a long-term legislative fix to keep families together at the border. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's true,\" Cornyn said. \"The only thing the White House changed was their enforcement policy. They said we're going to enforce the law against everybody who comes into the country illegally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn was one of a number of Republicans who said the choice today comes down to a decision between enforcing laws separating children from parents who are charged with crimes and ignoring those laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn said there are other laws that require children to be taken care of separately from parents who violate laws. He said he thinks the solution should be to keep families together while they await an expedited hearing before an immigration judge. Cornyn said he plans to introduce legislation to keep children with their parents, but he would not commit to timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Republicans, like Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, disagree. Hatch was among those to denounce the policy on Twitter early in the day. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, throughout the day on Monday, Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the president's policy of splitting children from the adults who brought them into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents, you can be sure of that,\" Sessions said. \"If we build the wall, we pass some legislation, we close some loopholes, we won't face these terrible choices.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen said the separations are warranted in cases where the parents have broken U.S. law by entering the country illegally — and that her agency is treating them no differently from how the government treats parents who break any other laws. But the Trump administration is being accused of handling the cases in a way no other presidency has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart,\" former first lady Laura Bush said in remarks published Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush wrote an opinion piece for \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> in which she compared the DHS actions to the U.S. policy of incarcerating Japanese-Americans in camps during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First lady Melania Trump also weighed in over the weekend, with her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/17/politics/melania-trump-children-separated-immigration/index.html\">a statement to CNN\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,\" the statement read, concluding, \"She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS policy triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589079243/activists-outraged-that-u-s-border-agents-separate-immigrant-families\">a lawsuit in February\u003c/a>; nearly a year earlier, members of the Trump administration had floated the idea of separating families \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/615010170/how-the-trump-administrations-family-separation-policy-is-playing-out\">as a potential deterrent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of high-profile Trump officials have spoken in favor of the policy. Last month, Sessions said, \"If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions spoke on Monday at the National Sheriffs' Association conference in New Orleans, where he received a lifetime achievement award. In his speech, the attorney general said the U.S. is having \"an important conversation\" over whether it will be \"a country of laws\" or \"a country without borders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason people voted for President Trump was \"to end the lawlessness at our southern border,\" Sessions said, adding, \"It's within our grasp. We can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions said that a loophole in U.S. policy had encouraged people to bring children to the U.S., under the belief that they would not be prosecuted. That resulted in a spike in illegal crossings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents,\" Sessions said. \"We do not want adults to bring children into this country unlawfully, either, placing those children at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also spoke at the conference, before returning to Washington where she briefed reporters at the delayed White House briefing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing how the DHS and Health and Human Services agencies handle those children, Sessions said, \"They're not put in jail, of course – they're taken care of. They remain in the country, even though they don't have a lawful process to be here.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions added, \"That's an enormous cost that's being incurred by our government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash against the Trump administration's tactic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620813068/hundreds-march-to-texas-tent-city-holding-detained-immigrant-kids\">grew into a protest march\u003c/a> on Sunday, with hundreds of people heading to a tent city in the town of Tornillo, near El Paso, Texas, where children have been detained. The Father's Day march was organized by Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, who is challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. 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