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- Walmart on Tuesday attacked the Trump administration’s detainment of migrant children in one of its former stores.
- “We had no idea our former store would be used for such a disturbing purpose,” Walmart tweeted. “We are just as shocked and disappointed as you are.”
- The supercenter in Brownsville, Texas, closed in 2016.
- It’s now housing nearly 1,500 migrant children who were were either separated from their parents at the border or arrived in the United States unaccompanied.
- The separations are part of the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy against illegal immigration.
Walmart on Tuesday attacked the Trump administration’s detainment of migrant children in one of its former stores.
The company said on Twitter that it was “shocked and disappointed” that its former store in Brownsville, Texas, was being used to house children who had been separated from their parents at the Mexico border.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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