Hindustan Times (Bathinda)

Confusion swirls along border after Trump reversal

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MCALLEN,TEXAS: President Donald Trump’s order to stop separating migrant children from their parents spread confusion along the border, with officials still working on a plan to reunite families while sending conflictin­g signals about the state of the administra­tion’s “zero tolerance” policy.

Parents who remained locked up struggled to get in touch with children being held in many cases hundreds of miles away. Some said they didn’t even know where their children were. Others said they had been deported without them. Trump himself took a hard line on the crisis, accusing the Democrats of telling “phony stories of sadness and grief.”

“We cannot allow our country to be overrun by illegal immigrants,” he tweeted.

A senior administra­tion official said about 500 of the more than 2,300 children taken from their families at the border in recent weeks have been reunited since May. Federal agencies are working to set up a centralise­d reunificat­ion process for all remaining children at a detention center on the Texas side of the border, said the official.

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