Since the implementation of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy, more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents. Critics from both sides of the aisle called the policy “inhumane” and “inconsistent with American values.” They called on the President to end the policy.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop the practice of separating children from their parents. Instead, his administration will hold families together in immigrant detention/military bases.
The President said his executive order is “about keeping families together.” He also stressed, “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”
Furthermore, Pres. Trump made it clear that his administration will continue its “zero-tolerance for people that enter our country illegally.”
Democrats criticized the executive order. In a statement, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, said, “Make no mistake. The president is doubling down on his zero-tolerance policy. His new executive order criminalizes asylum-seekers and seeks to indefinitely detain their children. Locking up whole families is no solution at all.”
