Trump plans executive action to prevent family separations at border

Fox News ^ | 06/20/2018 | By John Roberts, Andrew O'Reilly

[SeekAndFind]

President Trump is planning to sign an executive order to allow children to stay with parents caught crossing the border illegally -- a step that could avoid the family separations that have triggered a national outcry and political crisis for Republicans.

The action under consideration would allow children to stay in detention with parents for an extended period of time, Fox News has learned. This comes as congressional Republicans scramble to draft legislation to address the same issue, but face challenges mustering the votes.

Trump previewed the new measure, while holding out hope for legislation, during remarks to reporters during a meeting Wednesday with lawmakers.

"I’ll be signing something in a little while [to keep families together]," he said, calling the move "somewhat preemptive" and stressing it would "be matched by legislation." He also said he's canceling the upcoming congressional picnic, adding: "It didn't feel exactly right to me."

Shorty afterward, he clarified that he will sign an executive order before leaving for Minnesota late Wednesday afternoon.

The separations stem from the administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which aims to prosecute all illegal border crossers. But because of a 1997 order and related decisions, children cannot be detained for longer than 20 days with the adults.

Sources told Fox News that such an executive action by Trump could be seen to run afoul of the 1997 order and would likely draw a lawsuit. But the White House wants to try to take steps to uphold the enforcement of the law, while at the same time lessening the trauma of children being separated from their parents.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Well, Trump lost this one."

Actually in chess this is called a "fork moive" Trump just removed any opposition the left has about seperating children from thier parents while the parents are in detention by putting the children in detention also. He did it with an "executive Order" which if challenged would be struck down being it is unconstitutional.

Now the Democrats can either shutup and go along with it or challenge it in court thus showing they want to seperate children from their families.

Now they will scramble to come up with something else to stop the pending immigration bill that has 25 Billion in it to build the wall.

[KC_Conspirator]

You are correct.