Trump’s Family Separations Bedevil Republicans as Public Outrage Grows

Donald Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from parents who illegally cross the Mexican border threatens to balloon into an election-year headache for Republicans, as the president’s administration struggles to explain and defend a practice questioned even by his wife. First Lady Melania Trump, herself an immigrant, made a rare foray into policy matters on Sunday with a statement that the U.S. must be a country that “governs with heart.” Kirstjen Nielsen, the Homeland Security secretary, took to Twitter late in the day in an effort to clarify the administration’s handling of undocumented immigrant children. Period,” Nielsen said in one tweet, a statement that contradicts the president.

from Yahoo Finance https://ift.tt/2K3QcnE