A senior administration official believes Trump is convinced family separation has been the most effective policy at deterring asylum-seekers.
President Donald Trump has for months urged his administration to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of meetings at the White House.
Trump’s outgoing Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, resisted — setting her at odds with the president.
According to two of the sources, Nielsen told Trump that federal court orders prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from reinstating the policy, and that he would be reversing his own executive order from June that ended family separations.
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NEW: President Trump has for months urged his admin. to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, according to three US officials with knowledge of meetings at the White House tells @NBCNews. https://t.co/NisPcakd5H
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 8, 2019
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