President Trump reversed course Wednesday after a week of growing backlash to his zero tolerance policy that prompted family separations along the border, but Democrats weren’t appeased, vowing to continue their blitz.
“It sounds like they’re planning a handcuffs-for-all strategy, where children will be locked up along with their parents,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said on a call with reporters shortly before the White House released the executive order. “If that is the case, that has already been thrown out of the legally permitted activities before under the Flores consent agreement because that is harmful to children.”
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