{"id":143908,"date":"2018-06-20T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-speaks-of-plan-to-halt-migrant-separations\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:33:55","slug":"trump-speaks-of-plan-to-halt-migrant-separations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-speaks-of-plan-to-halt-migrant-separations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump speaks of plan to halt migrant separations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children in a tent city in Texas\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/7B87\/production\/_102132613_tv047577054.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Children are seen inside a recently erected tent city in Texas                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US President Donald Trump has promised action to &quot;keep families together&quot; amid fury over separations of undocumented child migrants from adults.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ll be signing something in a little while that&#039;s going to do that,&quot; he told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly drafted an executive order to stop the policy, though its wording and scope is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump earlier urged lawmakers to pass a bill ending family separations.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican president also wants immigration laws to be toughened under any such legislation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is Trump&#039;s family-separation endgame?<\/li>\n<li>Trump official booed at Mexican restaurant<\/li>\n<li>Who decided to take the children away?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Trump added that he was postponing the bipartisan congressional picnic scheduled for Thursday &quot;because it didn&#039;t feel right to me&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Republican congressional leader Paul Ryan said the House of Representatives will vote on Thursday &quot;on legislation to keep families together&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We do not want children taken away from their parents,&quot; he said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. &quot;We can enforce our immigration laws without breaking families apart.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He did not immediately provide details of the bill, but said that it resolves the issue of so-called Dreamers, undocumented adult migrants who were brought to the US as children, &quot;in a very elegant way&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Trump administration&#039;s &quot;zero-tolerance&quot; policy, 2,342 children have been separated from 2,206 parents between 5 May and 9 June.<\/p>\n<h2>What has international reaction been?<\/h2>\n<p>There has been global outrage at the US policy, rolled out last month, of separating migrant families at its border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and Canadian prime ministers, Theresa May and Justin Trudeau, both called it &quot;wrong&quot;. <\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bmjc6.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionTheresa May: US child detention &quot;disturbing&quot; and &quot;wrong&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Francis said he supported US Catholic bishops who said it was &quot;immoral&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who in the past has praised Mr Trump&#039;s policy of curbing immigration, told French TV that she disagreed with splitting children from parents.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso said the practice was &quot;cruel and inhuman&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is Trump doing this? <\/h2>\n<p><strong>By Anthony Zurcher, North America reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Administration officials have offered conflicting explanations for the harrowing details of crying children kept in fenced-in rooms and despondent parents, but Mr Trump&#039;s dual goals appear clear.<\/p>\n<p>One reason is leverage. He wants to force Democrats in Congress to negotiate a legislative package that keeps migrant families intact in exchange for full funding for his much-touted border wall, speedier deportation of undocumented aliens and sweeping changes to legal immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>His other incentive comes from knowing that this could be a winning mid-term election issue. Even if he fails to get a deal, it will motivate his base to turn out in support of Republicans across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, while 91% of Democrats and 68% of independents oppose separating asylum-seekers and others in the US illegally from their children, 55% of Republicans support it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of Anthony Zurcher&#039;s analysis <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Children are seen inside a recently erected tent city in Texas US President Donald Trump has promised action to &quot;keep families together&quot; amid fury over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}