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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Policy to deter illegal immigration, 2017–2018 Ursula detention facility in McAllen, Texas, dated June 2018 Juveniles, showing sleeping mats and thermal blankets on floor This article is part of a series about Donald Trump Business and personal Business career The Trump Organization ...
Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy are a reaction to the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents or guardians who crossed the U.S. border either illegally or to request asylum, jailing the adults and locating the minors at separate facilities under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
In July 2019, Homan testified before the House Oversight Committee regarding the Trump administration's family separation policy. [24] He declared that a third of all women who cross the border get raped, and that turning a blind eye to the border would result in an increase of child mortality.
The directive, issued under Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Trump Justice Department officials as part of the Trump administration family separation policy, led to the separation of thousands of small children from their parents, many of whom were seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing violence in Central America. [86]
Trump also failed to deliver the $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan on which he had campaigned. [166] Trump is the only modern U.S. president to leave office with a smaller workforce than when he took office, by 3 million people. [159] [167] Trump rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.
Responding to widespread criticism of family separation, President Trump issued an executive order titled "Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation." [ 238 ] The Order instructed the Department of Homeland Security to maintain custody of parents and children jointly, "to the extent permitted by law and subject to the ...
The New York Times described Trump as using "grievance as a political tool, portraying himself as the victim of what he claims is a powerful and amorphous 'deep state.'" [169] Trump's nomination of pro-Trump loyalist Kash Patel to be FBI director was described as part of Trump's vow to prosecute his political rivals owing to Patel's promotion ...
The U.S. agreed in a settlement last year to an eight-year ban on Trump's family separation policy. A lead lawyer in the case is prepared in case Trump ignores the ban—or tries to nullify it.