Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border, Documents Say
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Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump and top aides in the White House aggressively pushed the get-tough policy that led migrant families to be separated at the border with Mexico, according to a top Justice Department official in a new report from the department’s inspector general, and other internal documents.
In the report, formally released on Thursday, Gene Hamilton, a top Justice official, said the policy was implemented after complaints by the president and others at the White House involved in carrying out the president’s immigration agenda.
“The attorney general was aware of White House desires for further action related to combating illegal immigration,” Mr. Hamilton is quoted as saying in the report in response to questions about the origins of the program, in which the department began prosecuting migrant adults who arrived at the border with children.
Mr. Hamilton said that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions “perceived a need to take quick action” from Mr. Trump and that after a meeting at the White House on April 3, 2018, Mr. Sessions “directed that I draft a memo that would put in effect a zero tolerance approach to immigration enforcement at the border.”
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