The E. O. states: That section does not restate the current policy of prosecuting all illegal migrants — “zero tolerance” — but it does not…
The E. O. states:
That section does not restate the current policy of prosecuting all illegal migrants — “zero tolerance” — but it does not suggest that the government will scale back prosecutions.
As he signed the document, Trump said “we are keeping a very powerful border, and it continues to be a zero tolerance, we have zero tolerance for people who enter our country illegally.”
Trump may not want to put a zero-tolerance policy in an E. O. because that would raise the question of whether officials should separate mothers from infants. There are no confirmed reports that officials are detaining new mothers.
The E. O. says the federal government will try to keep families together while the parents’ cases are completed:
The families will be kept at federal facilities overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions will seek the judiciary’s approval to end the 1997 Flores settlement which forces the release of migrants with children:
Here is the full text of the E. O.
