President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will end a policy that separates families at the border.
“We’re going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime, by all of the things that we don’t stand for and that we don’t want,” Trump said Wednesday, when he announced that he would sign the order.
The order will end the separation of migrant families who had been split by the policy. Under the new order, the families will be detained together while they wait for court dates.
“We’re going to have strong — very strong — borders, but we are going to keep the families together,” Trump said. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”
The executive order says the new directivewill be to “maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.”
Trump’s reversal on the policy came after facing a firestorm of criticism about the policy.
In a tweet this week, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, thanked her father for the change.
“Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values…
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