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    Melania Trump Pressured President Trump To Change Family Separation Policy

    Melania Trump Pressured President Trump To Change Family Separation Policy


    June 21, 2018






    First lady Melania Trump sits on a couch surrounded by reporters as she participates in a meeting with President Trump, Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia in the Oval Office on Tuesday.




    Susan Walsh/AP

    Updated 6:15 p.m. ET



    There was a private lobbying force behind President Trump's change of heart on his controversial policy that resulted in thousands of family separations at the southern U.S. border: first lady Melania Trump.


    A White House official confirmed to NPR's Sarah McCammon that Mrs. Trump pressed her husband to act to keep undocumented immigrant families together.


    "She's been talking to him about it from the very beginning," the official said, who declined to speak on the record due to the sensitivity of the issue. The first lady's "Be Best" initiative is focused on the well-being of children.


    Melania Trump had first weighed in Sunday, issuing a statement via a spokeswoman that she "hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform. She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart."


    The first lady's comments were a departure from the president's approach to the crisis at the time, as the Trump administration has for days — until very recently — blamed Democrats and insisted that only Congress could act to end the family separations by passing changes to the nation's immigration laws.


    Separately, every other living first lady also condemned the practice of separating children from their parents. In a Washington Post op-ed, Laura Bush called it "cruel" and "immoral." Michelle Obama retweeted Bush's article, writing that, "Sometimes truth transcends party." Hillary Clinton has also spoken out against the practice and on Monday Rosalyn Carter also issued a statement calling the Trump administration's policy "disgraceful and a shame to our country."


    There were other Trump family members who also pressed the president to reconsider his stance. NPR's Kelsey Snell reported that when the president met with House GOP members Tuesday he told them that Ivanka Trump, who serves as a White House adviser, has also pushed him to act to stop family separations.


    "He mentioned that his daughter Ivanka had encouraged him to end this and he said he does recognize that it needs to end, that the images are painful," Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., said. "He discussed the optics and the policy itself and I think he's not comfortable with either."






    Ivanka Trump listens during a meeting between President Trump and Republican members of Congress on immigration at the White House Wednesday.


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    On Wednesday, the public pressure from both Democrats and Republicans — and private entreaties from his own family — seemed to have finally worked on the president. In the morning, Trump announced he would sign an executive order to address the issue, though he didn't elaborate at that point on how families detained at the border would be kept together or how detentions would be handled going forward.


    "We're going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime, by all of the things that we don't stand for and that we don't want," Trump said.


    And when he signed the order Wednesday afternoon, the president was asked whether his daughter Ivanka had shown him photos of children being separated from their parents. "No," the president said, adding "Ivanka feels very strongly. My wife feels very strongly about it. I feel very strongly about it. I think anybody with a heart would feel very strongly about it. We don't like to see families separated. At the same time, we don't want people coming into our country illegally. This takes care of the problem."


    After he signed the order, Ivanka Trump thanked her father on Twitter"for taking critical action ending family separation at our border."


    Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families
    — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 20, 2018



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    These family units and unaccompanied minors MUST be handed over into the care and custody of THEIR President within 48 hours.

    We cannot provide foster care for 2 BILLION children on the planet.

    These countries need to take care of their own citizens. They can put their minor citizens in foster care in their country! WHY are we charged with this responsibility!

    They MUST apply for asylum in THEIR country. Not USE Mexico as an entry point and show up at our Ports of Entry to apply!

    We cannot set up refugees camps on our border for MILLIONS of people using Mexico to get here!!!


    WE CANNOT GRANT ASYLUM TO MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SHOWING UP ON OUR DOORSTEP!

    NOW SHUT THIS DOWN AND GET CONTROL OF THIS MASSIVE PROBLEM!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    I don't know about the rest of you, but I did not vote on Trump's family, I voted on Trump!

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    Melania Trump went to visit the illegal alien children on the border today.



    WHEN ARE THE WIVES OF THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA GOING TO VISIT THOSE CHILDREN???

    WHEN ARE THEIR WIVES GOING TO TELL THEIR HUSBANDS TO BRING THOSE CHILDREN HOME TO THEIR COUNTRY AND TAKE CARE OF THEM???
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

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