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(6,537 posts)The Trump administration was caught off-guard by the amount of public backlash it received against the "zero-tolerance" policy that separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border, one official told The New Yorker.
The outpouring of anger toward the administration lasted for weeks, extending even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the separations.
"The expectation was that the kids would go to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, that the parents would get deported, and that no one would care," the official said.
Instead, the controversy persisted after it became evident the government had no plan to reunite the families it had already split apart. A federal judge eventually intervened, ordering the Trump administration to reunite all eligible families a lengthy, painstaking process that has so far reunited roughly 2,000 of the 2,654 children it separated.
https://www.thisisinsider.com/trump-officials-surprised-americans-cared-about-family-separations-zero-tolerance-2018-8