Painful scenes of child separations force a rare retreat from the White House
WASHINGTON - A 2-year-old girl, with red sneakers and dark hair, crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent searches her mother. Boys filing along white tents against a desolate desert backdrop. Toddlers screaming for their parents in a detention center in South Texas.
As wrenching scenes of the more than 2,300 immigrant children pulled apart from their parents at the southwest border sparked anguish around the globe and a political backlash at home, President Donald Trump said migrants illegally "infest our country," framing his policy to separate families as a deterrent against drug smugglers and Central American gang members.
From the June day three years ago when Trump announced his White House bid by charging that Mexico was
