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The Trump Administration’s Shifting Story on Family Separations

White House officials are sending mixed (and sometimes wrong) messages on their own policy’s origins.
Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

The Trump administration struggled to contain the fallout as outrage over migrant children being separated from their parents at the border accelerated on Monday.

As more and more disturbing stories and images have come out in recent days showing the children’s plight, the administration has been unable to get its story straight on the matter, with different officials offering different, even false, explanations of why the separations are happening and what kind of policy this is. Some White House officials have taken to shifting the blame elsewhere,

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