US President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order to keep migrant families together at the border with Mexico, amid an escalating uproar over the separation of children from their parents.
Heart-rending scenes and sounds of crying children taken from their families have aroused a firestorm of opposition to Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
After long insisting that Congress alone could solve the problem, the Republican president seemed ready to take the matter into his own hands.
“We are signing an executive order in a little while,” Trump says at the White House, noting that he hoped it would happen in parallel with legislation passed by Congress.
“We are going to keep families together. But we have to maintain toughness, or our country will be overrun by people, by all of the things that we don’t stand for,” Trump says at a meeting with cabinet members and Republican lawmakers.
The US House of Representatives is due to consider a bill on the issue tomorrow.
— AFP
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