{"id":143931,"date":"2018-06-20T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/migrant-children-trump-speaks-of-plan-to-halt-separations\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:04:47","slug":"migrant-children-trump-speaks-of-plan-to-halt-separations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/migrant-children-trump-speaks-of-plan-to-halt-separations\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant children: Trump speaks of plan to halt separations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bnc3q.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media caption&#039;I&#039;ll be signing something in a little while&#039;<\/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>Who has said what about US border crisis<\/li>\n<li>What is Trump&#039;s family-separation endgame?<\/li>\n<li>Who decided to take the children away?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bn6t7.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionUS youth shelter worker quit after being ordered to separate siblings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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, 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 entered the US as children, &quot;in a very elegant way&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bkb4z.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionThe US teens training in border patrol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Trump backs down <\/h2>\n<p><strong>Analysis b<\/strong><strong>y Anthony Zurcher, <\/strong><strong>BBC News, Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For days administration officials have insisted they were simply following the law as written and their &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policy for illegal border crossings meant they &quot;have to take the children away&quot;, in the president&#039;s words.  <\/p>\n<p>Critics have countered that Mr Trump unilaterally created the situation that produced the heart-rending accounts of children separated from their parents, and he could unilaterally fix it. <\/p>\n<p>By taking executive action, the president is effectively acknowledging they were correct.<\/p>\n<p>Now the fight will probably move to the courts, with legal challenges to the administration&#039;s decision to hold detained families together while their immigration status is adjudicated. <\/p>\n<p>That is more politically hospitable ground for Republicans, who already face challenging mid-term congressional elections.<\/p>\n<p>This move should also deal a final blow to hopes for any kind of comprehensive immigration reform from Congress this year. <\/p>\n<p>The odds always seemed long, even with this recent burst of urgency, but Republicans couldn&#039;t agree amongst themselves, let along reach the consensus with Democrats needed for passage in the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the future of immigration reform will hinge on the results of November&#039;s elections and which party controls Congress when the dust settles. <\/p>\n<p>Read more of Anthony Zurcher&#039;s analysis <\/p>\n<h2>Why the uproar?<\/h2>\n<p>In April, the US attorney general announced a &quot;zero-tolerance&quot; policy to criminally charge and jail undocumented border crossers.<\/p>\n<p>As children cannot legally be jailed with their parents, they are kept in separate facilities. <\/p>\n<p>US immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents between 5 May and 9 June.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bh6ch.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionThe sound of migrant children separated from parents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pictures of dozens of children sleeping in fenced enclosures and audio of crying children emerged in recent days, provoking the widespread criticism.  <\/p>\n<p>Babies and toddlers have been sent to three &quot;tender age&quot; shelters maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Associated Press news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Under previous US administrations, immigrants caught crossing the border for the first time tended to be issued with court summonses and released. <\/p>\n<h2>What has international reaction been?<\/h2>\n<p>There has been global outrage at the US policy 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<p>Pope Francis said he supported US Catholic bishops who called it &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<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<h2>More on child migrants crisis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Who decided to take the children away?<\/li>\n<li>Fenced enclosures hold migrant children <\/li>\n<li>Trump&#039;s blame game on separating families<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p05tzcf1.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionThe missing - consequences of Trump&#039;s immigration crackdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia caption&#039;I&#039;ll be signing something in a little while&#039; US President Donald Trump has promised action to &quot;keep families together&quot; amid fury over separations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143931","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\/143931","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=143931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}