'We Want No Part Of It': Airlines Say Flights Are Not For Separating Families
American Airlines, United and Frontier issued statements Wednesday asking that authorities refrain from using their flights for a controversial immigration policy that the president later walked back.
by Colin Dwyer
Jun 20, 2018
3 minutes
Seated in the Oval Office on Wednesday, flanked by his vice president and secretary of homeland security, President Trump walked back an administration practice that has separated more than 2,300 children from their parents along the border.
Earlier in the day, several major U.S. airlines had made their positions on the most controversial facet of Trump's "zero tolerance" policy abundantly clear: "We want no part of it."
That's how United CEO Oscar Munoz concluded his statement
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