“The order will keep parents and children detained together while they await deportation. Due to the high backlog of asylum cases, those detentions could be indefinite.”
“It’s a reversal for Trump, who said last week, ‘we can’t do it through an executive order.'”
“Thousands of children have been separated from their parents since April, when the administration implemented a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for people entering the U.S. illegally. (That policy continues under Trump’s order.)”
