Don promises order to end family separations

Washington, June 20: President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is preparing to sign an executive order to halt the separation of migrant children from their parents on the US border, as global criticism of the practice mounted.

The announcement came after his administration was besieged from all sides over the policy, launched in early May, to a r r e s t anyone crossing the border illegally.

That crackdown sent the adults for prosecution as criminals -- and removed their children from their care, sending them to tent camps and other facilities where they were unable to contact their loved ones.

As images and accounts of sobbing children wrested from their parents circulated, Trump’s own Republican Party began to rebel, prompting him to do an about- face after days of saying it was up to Congress to act, and pledge Texas, June 20: Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the USMexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, it was has learned.

Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschoolage children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house

executive action.

“We want security for the country,” Trump said at a meeting with Republican lawmakers at the White House. “And we will have that at the same time we have compassion, we want to keep families together.” hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move on Tuesday.

Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy, more than 2,300 children were taken from their parents at the US- Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young kids requiring government care. The government has faced outrage over images of some of kids in cages inside US Border Patrol stations.

“We are signing an executive order in a little while” to end the practice, Trump said. The President however made clear he was not easing up on his determination to shut down the border to illegal immigration.