{"id":30421,"date":"2018-06-20T20:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30421"},"modified":"2018-06-20T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:06:05","slug":"trump-ends-family-separation-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30421","title":{"rendered":"Trump ends family separation &#8230; now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald J. Trump today heeded the din of dissent across the nation over a policy that separated young children from their parents at the nation&#8217;s southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s executive order ends the policy in a 180-degree reversal. Families won&#8217;t be separated. Children won&#8217;t be delivered to camps to await some disposition of their fate while the government decides what to do about their parents&#8217; illegal entry into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to see the president react in this manner. His rhetoric today, though, continues to sound defiant. He lays blame for this situation on his predecessors in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>So, the question remains: What happens now?<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress joined their Democratic colleagues in calling for an end to this inhumane policy. I am heartened to hear the bipartisan outrage, just as I am heartened to witness Trump backing down from his previous statements.<\/p>\n<p>I am left to wonder, too, why he would say today that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t like the sight&#8221; of families being separated. When did that &#8220;sight&#8221; upset him? Did it just happen? Or was he upset all along? If it&#8217;s the latter, then why continue to implement such a policy?<\/p>\n<p>Well, he acted today as he should have done before this crisis erupted. Now it&#8217;s time to find a comprehensive solution to the nation&#8217;s immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>Get busy, Mr. President and members of Congress.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump today heeded the din of dissent across the nation over a policy that separated young children from their parents at the nation&#8217;s southern border. The president&#8217;s executive order ends the policy in a 180-degree reversal. Families won&#8217;t be separated. Children won&#8217;t be delivered to camps to await some disposition of their fate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump ends family separation &#8230; now what?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,1941,2240,2245,7833],"class_list":["post-30421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-zero-tolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30422,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30421\/revisions\/30422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}