Politics A.M.: The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border

As debate shifts, Republican candidates decry family separations; Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border

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Fact Checker •  Analysis The facts about Trump's policy of separating families at the border In Orwellian fashion, the Trump administration repeatedly claims its own policy doesn't exist or was written by others. By Salvador Rizzo  •  Read more » As debate shifts, Republican candidates decry family separations The president has longed used the issue of immigration to his advantage. But backlash over the decision to separate children from their parents has left GOP candidates scrambling to distance themselves. By Michael Scherer and Sean Sullivan  •  Read more »   Trump defiant as crisis grows over family separation at the border The president said immigrant parents could be "murderers," and he continued to falsely blame Democrats for the policy. By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Seung Min Kim  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Nielsen becomes the public face of Trump's family separation policy "We will not apologize," the DHS secretary said during a day-long defense amid a growing political uproar over the practice and the administration's erroneous claims. By David Nakamura and Nick Miroff  •  Read more »   Analysis How to mislead with statistics, DHS Secretary Nielsen edition A surge in smuggling cited by Kirstjen Nielsen means that 191 of 30,911 family units are suspect. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   Monkey Cage • Analysis The extraordinary unpopularity of Trump's family separation policy (in one graph) It's less popular than the GOP tax bill, the border wall and many, many other policies. By John Sides  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Romney calls for 'disturbing' family separations to stop The Senate candidate, in remarks to voters in Utah, avoided blaming President Trump or the Department of Homeland Security for the humanitarian crisis. By Elise Viebeck  •  Read more »   It was a Trump favorite. Now lawyers want the famously discreet Beverly Hills Hotel to share its secrets. Records of his stays at its bungalows have been subpoenaed in a defamation lawsuit brought by former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos — the first legal action to open the president's private life to discovery. By Frances Stead Sellers  •  Read more »   Supreme Court to consider cases on the seizure of a $40,000 Land Rover, iPhone apps and a moose hunter The high court will consider limits on the common, controversial practice of asset forfeiture. By Ann E. Marimow  •  Read more »   Monkey Cage • Analysis The Supreme Court decided not to decide Wisconsin's gerrymandering case. But here's why it will be back. Justice Kagan offered specific instructions for how plaintiffs could resuscitate the case. By Barry C. Burden and David T. Canon  •  Read more »   Recommended for you     Get the Fact Checker newsletter Count the pinocchios. A weekly review of what's true, false or in-between. Sign Up  »

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