Trump signs executive order allowing joint family detention

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President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon to end the practice of separating children from parents accused of illegally crossing the border.

“I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he signed it.

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