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Trump Administration Has No Idea Whether It Backs Family Separation at the Border

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President Trump blames it on the Democrats. Stephen Miller says it was a ‘simple decision.’ Kirstjen Nielsen says the policy doesn’t exist—‘period.’ So which is it?

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The United States has no policy of separating migrant families at the border. There is such a policy, but it’s all the Democrats’ fault. The policy was a “simple decision,” but one “nobody likes.”

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