President Trump has for months urged his administration to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, according to 3 U.S. officials with knowledge of meetings at the White House.
The president on Tuesday denied that he is trying to"clean house" at DHS after it was announced Monday that, a retired Marine Corps major general who was appointed two years ago, is on his way out the door just a day after Nielsen's resignation.
, which was in effect in 2018 from May 6 through June 20. Under pressure, Trump signed an executive order last June to end the practice and allow families to be detained together. "President Obama separated the children. Those cages that were shown, I think they were very inappropriate, they were built by President Obama's administration," Trump said."I'm the one that stopped it."that claim is inaccurate — there was no widespread Obama-era policy of separating parents and children.
"I'm pretty confident that the Obama administration did not," Williams said."The idea that this was some Obama-era thing, it's just a lie, it's factually untrue."
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