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What happens at the border is complex. The alphabet soup of agencies is confusing. And we should be forgiving of screw ups. That said, WaPo's WH reporter and the underlying tweet have this wrong. By the govt's own account, ICE did some family separations. documentcloud.org/documents/4550…
Family separation is a Trump administration-wide policy that ultimately flowed from the Oval Office, but it appears ICE took the administrative point on family separations for DHS. The Dept.'s flyers direct parents seeking information to call ICE (or its partner ORR, at HHS).
It's good to know what agencies do. Also good to know the ever-expanding Trumpy part of the govt takes after the boss in regards to fidelity to the truth. The weapons they hand you to hit decent protesters with may not be reliable, especially if ICE Director Homan forged them.
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