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- White House reporters interrogated press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday over the Trump administration’s family separation tactic.
- One reporter asked Sanders whether she had any “empathy” as a parent of young children toward the families being split up by Border Patrol agents.
- Sanders argued that the Trump administration has merely been enforcing the law and blamed Democrats for refusing to close supposed “loopholes” in immigration law.
White House reporters grilled press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday, demanding answers on the morality of the Trump administration’s new practice of separating some migrant parents from their children at the border.
In recent months, Border Patrol agents have split up at least hundreds of migrant families under the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy mandating that every person caught illegally crossing the border face criminal prosecution.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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