In an move to quell the outrage over the enforcement of family separations caused by the administration's "zero-tolerance policy" over illegal immigration, President Trump signed an executive order stopping the removal of children from their parents. This doesn't solve the issue for the over 2,000 kids that have already been removed from their parents since May 2018 and are now being housed in detention centers in many southwestern states. The executive order takes the pressure off of Congress where Republicans were trying to rush through a number of immigration bill proposals to combat bad press in an important election cycle.

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