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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018
In reversal, Trump orders halt to family separation rule
By JILL COLVIN
and COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Bow-
ing to pressure from anxious
allies, President Donald Trump
abruptly reversed himself
Wednesday and signed an exec-
utive order halting his admin-
istration’s policy of separat-
ing children from their parents
when they are detained illegally
crossing the U.S. border.
It was a dramatic turnaround
for Trump, who has been insist-
ing, wrongly, that his adminis-
tration had no choice but to sep-
arate families apprehended at
the border because of federal
law and a court decision.
The order does not end the
“zero-tolerance” policy that
criminally prosecutes all adults
caught crossing the border ille-
gally. But, at least for the next
few weeks, it would keep fam-
ilies together while they are in
custody, expedite their cases
and ask the Defense Depart-
ment to help house them. It also
doesn’t change anything yet for
the some 2,300 children taken
from their families since the
policy was put into place.
The news in recent days
has been dominated by searing
images of children held in cages
at border facilities, as well as
audio recordings of young chil-
dren crying for their parents —
images that have sparked fury,
questions of morality and con-
cern from Republicans about a
negative impact on their races in
November’s midterm elections.
Until Wednesday, the presi-
dent, Homeland Security Secre-
tary Kirstjen Nielsen and other
officials had repeatedly argued
the only way to end the practice
was for Congress to pass new
legislation, while Democrats
said Trump could do it with his
signature alone. That’s just what
he did.
“We’re going to have strong,
very strong borders, but we’re
going to keep the families
together,” said Trump, who
added that he didn’t like the
“sight” or “feeling” of children
separated from their parents.
Under a previous class-ac-
tion settlement that set policies
for the treatment and release
of minors caught at the border,
families can only be detained
for 20 days. A senior Justice
Department official said that
hasn’t changed.
“This is a stopgap measure,”
said Gene Hamilton, counsel
to the attorney general. Justice
lawyers were planning to file
a challenge to the agreement,
known as the Flores settlement,
asking that a judge allow for the
detention of families until crim-
inal and removal proceedings
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Donald Trump holds up the executive order he
signed to end family separations at the border.
are completed.
So Trump’s order is likely
to create a fresh set of problems
and may well spark a new court
fight. It’s unclear what happens
if no changes to law or the set-
tlement take place by the time
families reach the detainment
deadline. The language also
leaves room to separate children
from parents if it’s best for the
child’s welfare.
And it didn’t do much for the
teeming outrage over the issue.
The Alabama-based South-
ern Poverty Law Center said
the order didn’t go nearly far
enough.
“The administration still
plans to criminalize families
— including children — by
holding them in prison-like
detention facilities. There are
workable alternatives,” presi-
dent Richard Cohen said in a
statement.
It’s also unclear what will
happen to the children already
separated. Health and Human
Services Secretary Alex Azar
said his department will start
reuniting detained immigrant
children with their parents —
but he made no specific com-
mitment on how quickly that
can be accomplished. And offi-
cials said the cases of the chil-
dren already separated and
turned over to their custody
would proceed as usual.
Trump’s family apparently
played a role in his turnaround.
A White House official
said first lady Melania Trump
had been making her opinion
known to the president for some
time that she felt he needed to
do all he could to help families
stay together, whether by work-
ing with Congress or acting on
his own.
And daughter Ivanka Trump
tweeted, “Thank you @POTUS
for taking critical action ending
family separation at our border.”
Homeland Security Secre-
tary Nielsen briefed lawmak-
ers on Capitol Hill Wednes-
day, and those on the fence over
pending immigration legisla-
tion headed to the White House
to meet with Trump. Assess-
ments for possible detention
facilities at military bases have
already been done in Texas and
another is expected in Arkansas
on Thursday.
Two people close to Nielsen
said she was the driving force
behind the turnabout that led
to the new order keeping fami-
lies together. Those people were
not authorized to speak publicly
and commented only on condi-
tion of anonymity.
One of them said Nielsen,
who had become the face of the
administration’s policy, had lit-
tle faith that Congress would act
to fix the separation issue and
felt compelled to act. She was
heckled at a restaurant Tuesday
evening and has faced protest-
ers at her home.
Trump had tweeted early
Wednesday, before issuing his
order: “It’s the Democrats fault,
they won’t give us the votes
needed to pass good immigra-
tion legislation. They want open
borders, which breeds horrible
crime. Republicans want secu-
rity. But I am working on some-
thing - it never ends!”
The “zero tolerance” policy
put into place last month moves
adults to the custody of the U.S.
Marshals Service and sends
many children to facilities run
by the Department of Health
and Human Services.
The policy had led to a spike
in family separations in recent
weeks, with more than 2,300
minors separated from their
families at the border from May
5 through June 9, according to
Homeland Security.
The Flores settlement,
named for a teenage girl who
brought the case in the 1980s,
requires the government to
release children from custody
and to their parents, adult rel-
atives or other caretakers, in
order of preference. If those
options are exhausted, authori-
ties must find the “least restric-
tive” setting for a child who
arrived without parents.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Supreme Court:
Online shoppers can be
forced to pay sales tax
WASHINGTON — States will be able to
force shoppers to pay sales tax when they make
online purchases under a Supreme Court deci-
sion today that will leave shoppers with lighter
wallets, but is a big win for states.
More than 40 states had asked the high court
to overrule two, decades-old Supreme Court
decisions that they said cost them billions of
dollars in lost revenue annually. The decisions
made it more difficult for states to collect sales
tax on certain online purchases.
The Supreme Court agreed to overturn those
decisions in a 5-4 ruling. Justices Anthony Ken-
nedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch voted in the
majority.
Chief Justice John Roberts and three of his
colleagues would have kept the court’s previ-
ous decisions in place. Roberts wrote that Con-
gress, not the court, should change the rules if
necessary.
The cases the court overturned said that if a
business was shipping a customer’s purchase to
a state where the business didn’t have a physical
presence such as a warehouse or office, the busi-
ness didn’t have to collect the state’s sales tax.
Customers were generally responsible for pay-
ing the sales tax to the state themselves if they
weren’t charged it, but most didn’t realize they
owed it and few paid.
In addition to being a win for states, the rul-
ing is also a win for large retailers, who argued
the physical presence rule was unfair. Large
retailers including Apple, Macy’s, Target and
Walmart, which have brick-and-mortar stores
nationwide, already generally collect sales tax
from their customers who buy online. That’s
because they typically have a physical store in
whatever state the purchase is being shipped to.
Amazon.com, with its network of warehouses,
also collects sales tax in every state that charges
it, though third-party sellers who use the site to
sell goods don’t have to.
Trudeau: Canada to
legalize marijuana on
Oct. 17
TORONTO — Marijuana will be legal
nationwide in Canada starting Oct. 17 in a move
that should take market share away from orga-
nized crime and protect the country’s youth,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
The Senate gave final passage to the bill to
legalize cannabis on Tuesday, legislation that
will make Canada only the second country in
the world to make pot legal across the country.
Trudeau said provincial and territorial gov-
ernments need the time to prepare for retail
sales.
“It is our hope as of October 17 there will
be a smooth operation of retail cannabis outlets
operated by the provinces with an online mail
delivery system operated by the provinces that
will ensure that this happens in an orderly fash-
ion,” Trudeau said.
The prime minister said at a news conference
that the goal is to take a significant part of the
market share away from organized crime.
Canada is following the lead of Uruguay in
allowing a nationwide, legal marijuana market,
although each Canadian province is working up
its own rules for pot sales. The federal govern-
ment and the provinces also still need to publish
regulations that will govern the cannabis trade.
Many questions remain unanswered, includ-
ing how police will test motorists suspected of
driving under the influence, what to do about
those with prior marijuana convictions and just
how the rules governing home cultivation will
work.
The Canadian provinces of Quebec and
Manitoba have already decided to ban home-
grown pot, even though the federal bill speci-
fies that individuals can grow up to four plants
per dwelling.
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