Trump Orders U.S. Agencies to Reunite Separated Migrant Families
- First lady visits immigrant children taken from parents
- President earlier halted policy splitting families amid furor
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President Donald Trump said he ordered federal agencies to reunite immigrant families separated by his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward people caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico.
Trump issued the order Thursday as he continued to retreat from a policy that has engendered public outrage and that his administration has stumbled trying to defend. First Lady Melania Trump went to the Texas border on Thursday, accompanied by journalists, to visit immigrant children on a trip her staff said she planned herself.