While Donald Trump’s administration might have reversed its stance on separating children from families, there was a lot of outrage as pictures of children being led away from their parents were transmitted across the world.
While Donald Trump’s administration might have reversed its stance on separating children from families, there was a lot of outrage as pictures of children being led away from their parents were transmitted across the world.
It was too much for one news anchor, when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow broke down on live television, an emotion that resonated across the world.
She wrote on Twitter: “If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV.
What I was trying to do -- when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything -- was read this lede
"Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas...
"Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the "tender age" shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis...
"Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents...
“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.”
All from this Associated Press story that broke while I was on the air tonight, but which I was unable to read on the air. Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.”
Donald Trump's abrupt reversal in a volatile immigration crisis resulted from pressure by close family members, friends and lawmakers who urged him to climb down from a deeply unpopular hardline policy.
As recently as Monday, Trump was vowing to stick to a policy that led to children being separated from their parents when they crossed illegally into the United States from Mexico.
He tried to blame Democrats, saying they had failed to work with Republicans on immigration and accusing them of wanting illegal immigrants to "pour into and infest our country".
"The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility," he said on Monday.
But the collective pressure from people in Trump's inner circle was intense, especially from his wife, Melania Trump, and eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and it finally persuaded him to back down, sources familiar with the situation said.
Privately, Trump understood that he was facing a huge political problem, and he was keenly aware of negative news coverage, watching TV at times on a television in the small dining room adjacent to the Oval Office, a source close to him said.
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