{"id":1002603,"date":"2018-10-15T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002603"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:45","slug":"the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LATEST: Trump Defends Family Separation Policy &#038; Confirms He\u2019s Considering Doing It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">This weekend, Trump defended his family separation policy that led to at least 2,500 children being forcibly separated from their families. Trump also confirmed that he is considering a new policy to tear even more families apart. Here\u2019s the latest:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump confirmed that he is considering a new family separation policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-says-he-is-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-at-us-mexico-border\/2018\/10\/13\/ea2f256e-cf25-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?utm_term=.962439dd1c31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump confirmed Saturday that he is considering a new family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border because he believes the administration\u2019s earlier move to separate migrant children from parents was an effective deterrent to illegal crossings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump continued to defend his family separation policy in a \u201860 Minutes\u2019 interview.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/411369-trump-defends-family-separations-at-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump on Sunday defended his administration&#8217;s controversial \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 policy, which resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the southern U.S. border earlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Trump administration is appealing a court ruling that prevents it from deporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were living and working in the U.S. under temporary protected status.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/trump-administration-appeals-ruling-immigrants-stay-58465799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration is appealing a judge\u2019s ruling that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries who are living and working in the U.S. under temporary protected status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Trump administration released a proposed rule to change \u201cpublic charge\u201d policies that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/disparities-policy\/issue-brief\/estimated-impacts-of-the-proposed-public-charge-rule-on-immigrants-and-medicaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>: \u201cOn October 10, 2018, the Trump administration released a proposed rule to change \u2018public charge\u2019 policies that govern how the use of public benefits may affect individuals\u2019 ability to obtain legal permanent resident (LPR) status. The proposed rule would expand the programs that the federal government would consider in public charge determinations to include previously excluded health, nutrition, and housing programs, including Medicaid. It also identifies characteristics DHS could consider as negative factors that would increase the likelihood of someone becoming a public charge, including having income below 125% of the federal poverty level (FPL) ($25,975 for a family of three as of 2018).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Trump defended his family separation policy that led to at least 2,500 children being forcibly separated from their families. Trump also confirmed that he is considering a new policy to tear even more families apart. Here\u2019s the latest: &nbsp; Trump confirmed that he is considering a new family separation policy. &nbsp; Washington Post: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THE LATEST: Trump Defends Family Separation Policy &amp; Confirms He\u2019s Considering Doing It Again - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-15T10:21:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/\",\"name\":\"THE LATEST: Trump Defends Family Separation Policy & Confirms He\u2019s Considering Doing It Again - Democrats\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-15T10:21:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-23T20:15:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c31239f43161314a03057960c56c0564\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/the-latest-trump-defends-family-separation-policy-confirms-hes-considering-doing-it-again\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"THE LATEST: Trump Defends Family Separation Policy &#038; 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