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    Trump Blames Own Border Policy on Democrats

    by D'Angelo Gore May 22, 2018 4 minutes

    President Donald Trump wrongly blamed Democrats for a Trump administration policy that will separate parents and their young children caught entering the U.S. illegally.

    “We have to break up families,” Trump claimed, because of “bad laws that the Democrats gave us.” But there is no such law. Instead, it’s the administration’s decision to criminally prosecute all immigrants who cross the border illegally that will cause children to be separated from their parents.

    In early May, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to refer all unauthorized immigrants who cross the U.S. border to federal prosecutors. It’s in accordance with the Department of Justice’s new “ on illegal immigration at the Southwest

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