Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
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The court says the ban is a typical government policy — not an expression of Trump’s feelings about Muslims.
Families are being offered an impossibly cruel choice: fight to stay in the US apart, or give up and get sent back together.
Trump hopes the courts will let him detain families like Obama did.
But even ending “zero tolerance” wouldn’t stop them from keeping families in immigration detention.
The court order Trump blames for family separations could be an obstacle to using an executive order to solve it.
The law says the government can’t detain migrant families for more than 20 days. Trump’s team is pressuring a judge to change that.
The new order replaces family separation with family detention.
The government tried this in 2014. It was a disaster.
Being separated from a parent isn’t just a trauma — it breaks the relationship that helps children cope with other traumas.
Government officials aren’t sure how many families have been reunited: “We are still working through the process.”