Family separation policy memo
In April 2018, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen signed a memo, here in redacted form, that formalized the family separation policy.
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They were just enforcing the law, not deliberately taking kids from their parents, administration officials claimed. That and other lies justified the policy that caused a scandal in early 2018. The policy seemed to have died, but family separation lives on.
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