Her spokeswoman said there ‘was no hidden message’ behind the outfit the first lady wore getting on a flight to visit a facility housing migrant children.
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Skowhegan protesters decry Trump administration’s immigration policy
The people gather on the Margaret Chase Smith Bridge said the policy change anouncement the president made Wednesday is irrelevant, because it still means innocent children will be locked up.
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Maine advocates still concerned over fate of immigrant families
President Trump promised to end families’ separation at the Mexico border Wednesday, but his executive order also seeks to override a law limiting the time children can stay in detention facilities.
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LePage plans to send helicopter, 2 National Guard pilots to U.S.-Mexico border
Governors of several other states on the East Coast, including two Republicans, had pulled their National Guard resources before Trump reversed course and ended the ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents.
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In reversal, Trump signs order stopping family separation
Images of young children in tears, housed in metal cages, set off international outrage.
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U.S.-China trade war carries big risks for both countries, and for global growth
If implemented, tit-for-tat tariffs would ripple through the world’s two largest economies, as evidenced by Tuesday’s falling stock markets, and the damage could spread.
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Trump administration pulls US out of UN human rights council
It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution.
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US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children
The new estimate comes as backlash widens over President Donald Trump’s’ decision to separate parents and children.
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Trump, Republican lawmakers struggle to address anger over family separations
One plan would keep children in detention longer than now permitted — but with their parents.
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Sen. Collins calls for White House to halt ‘inhumane’ practice of separating children from parents
Collins joins 12 other Republican senators in sending a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that says the Justice Department’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy is ‘the immediate cause of the crisis.’