Time cover
"Trump caves after negative images, pressure from family".
Time makes it look like Trump is villain,which is what the left wanted to do all along.
Unfortunately, his signature issue, the border and the wall, the one that got him elected, has just been made a prime example of the law of unintended consequences.
President Trump is saying we still must have a wall, and that zero tolerance is not going away.
he may say this, and he may actually believe it, but words (and EO's) indeed, have consequences.
here we go....
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-will-stop-prosecuting-migrant-parents-who-cross-the-border-illegally-with-children-official-says/ar-AAyYaHZ"The U.S. Border Patrol will no longer refer migrant parents who cross into the United States illegally with children to federal courthouses to face criminal charges, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told The Washington Post on Thursday.
The about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration’s widely denounced practice of separating parents and children apprehended for illegally crossing the Mexico border. Trump’s order said the government would maintain a “zero tolerance†policy toward those who break the law, but the senior U.S. official, asked to explain how the government would change enforcement practices, said Border Patrol agents were instructed Wednesday evening to stop sending parents with children to federal courthouses for prosecution."and....
“We’re suspending prosecutions of adults who are members of family units until ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) can accelerate resource capability to allow us to maintain custody,†the official said.
followed by....
"Because ICE lacks the detention capacity to increase the number of families it holds in detention, the official acknowledged that many migrant parents and children will likely be released from custody while they await court hearings.
Top CBP officials did not know what the executive order would ask them to do until its release Wednesday, the official said. The decision to cease prosecutions of parents with children was made by the Department of Homeland Security for logistical purposes because the official said it would not be “feasible†to bring children to federal courtrooms while their parents go before a judge."
It may not be a cave, but the MSM and the left are doing victory laps today.
I have to admit, I had been skeptical of this whole wall idea.
Frankly, because Trump landed on many sides of this issue throughout his campaign, and now in his Presidency.
He is still saying zero tolerance and a wall.
Time will tell, I suppose.
Call a cave or a stroke of genius.
Call it whatever you want, but I can tell you that my own first and current reactions are not positive ones.
This is a step backwards, my gut tells me.
I hope it is one we can recover from.
