Trump, halting his own policy: “I didn’t like sight of families being separated.”

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on immigration in the Oval Office of the White House with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence on June 20, 2018 in Washington.Mandel Ngan / AFP – Getty Images

No fake news here. This is why journalism matters. It wasn’t the moral consequences of his own immigration crackdown that caused Trump to act — it was “the sight of” those consequences.

What happens to those families after they have been detained for over 20 days remains to be seen.

Very glad to hear that Microsoft employees objected to their company’s work with ICE. We should not forget how IBM profited from the Nazi reign of terror.

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