President Trump Regrets Order Ending Family Separations, Report Says
by Ronn Blitzer | 8:20 am, June 25th, 2018
President Donald Trump made some controversial statements over the weekend regarding the current state of immigration and his administrations zero tolerance policy that resulted in separating families charged with crossing the border illegally. While hes commented publicly quite a bit on the subject, a reported statement behind the scenes might be the most controversial of all.
Trump signed an executive order calling for an end to family separations at the border, but now, according to
The New York Times, he has said that he regrets signing it. The president signed the order after much politicking from Republicans, Democrats, and Trump himself failed to result in any legislative solution to what all of them agreed was a bad situation.
The order was meant to keep in place the administrations zero tolerance policy for illegal immigration, while avoiding the family separations that came as a result of charging parents with crimes. Instead of detaining the parents separately, forcing children to be placed elsewhere, Trumps order called for families to be detained together. Trump is seeing, however, that its not as simple as that, because this runs into a legal issue regarding a 1997 consent decree that places a 20-day limit on how long children can be detained by immigration authorities. The Times reported that Trump has lamented that he doesnt have the power to create his own comprehensive immigration policy with a wave of his pen.
This conflict between Trumps wishes and his constitutional powers was on display much more publicly Sunday, when he called for deporting people without due process. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases [sic], bring them back from where they came, he tweeted.
Such a policy would be a blatant violation of the Constitution. Without due process, authorities would theoretically be able to accuse anyone of being in the country illegally and deporting them, even American citizens, because the accused wouldnt have an opportunity to prove otherwise. While theres no indication that this is what Trump was getting at, it is another example of his wishes conflicting with constitutional restrictions.
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