WAPO: Trump administration will stop prosecuting migrant parents who cross the border illegally with children, official says
The dramatic about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration’s widely denounced practice of separating families apprehended at the Mexico border. Trump’s order said the government would maintain a “zero tolerance” policy toward those who break the law, but a senior U.S. official, when asked to explain how […]
This would be quite the switch in policy. The Washington Post reports, “Border Patrol agents have been instructed to stop sending parents with children to federal courthouses for prosecution.”
