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| Family separation crisis: Trump tells Republicans to 'stop wasting time on immigration' – live | Family separation crisis: Trump tells Republicans to 'stop wasting time on immigration' – live |
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| ABC News has shared an emotional video of a mother from Guatemala reuniting with her young son at an airport in Baltimore. | |
| Emotional scenes as migrant mother and son from Guatemala, who were separated crossing the U.S. border, are finally reunited at BWI Airport in Maryland after a month apart. https://t.co/3lwrqXTByp pic.twitter.com/lEiJZB948X | |
| She cries “te amo, te amo, te amo” (I love you, I love you, I love you) as she holds him. | |
| The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani writes from Tijuana, where five asylum-seekers are still hoping to enter the US legally. Two of those people, Maria López and Roberto Santos, explained why they felt the need to flee their home in the Mexican state of Guerrero where the current homicide rate of 77 per 100,000 people is one of the highest in the world: | |
| In recent years, the fertile community has been taken over by warring drug gangs who replaced maize and vegetable crops with poppies. The vast majority of 900 or so habitants have fled, forced to abandon homes, livestock and once productive land. “It’s a ghost town now, just poppies and gun battles,” said López in front of the Tijuana-San Diego border bridge, where they’ve come to see how far they’ve advanced on the asylum seeker’s waiting list. | |
| The young family moved to the state capital Chilpancingo and started to build a new life. Santos worked construction, López was a cook’s assistant, and their son, now almost four, attended kindergarten. | |
| But earlier this month, they received message that the criminal group knew where they were living, and they felt they had to run. “We couldn’t stay and wait to find out, what if they kill my son,” López said. | |
| Donald Trump sent a series of tweets about immigration starting just before 7am this morning, including an order to Republicans to “stop wasting their time on immigration.” | Donald Trump sent a series of tweets about immigration starting just before 7am this morning, including an order to Republicans to “stop wasting their time on immigration.” |
| In the messages, Trump blamed Democrats for the Republicans failure to pass immigration reform bills this week and backed Republicans running for office in the upcoming midterm elections. | In the messages, Trump blamed Democrats for the Republicans failure to pass immigration reform bills this week and backed Republicans running for office in the upcoming midterm elections. |
| Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE! | Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE! |
| Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! | Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! |
| Facing condemnation from across the political spectrum, Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the end of his family separation policy that saw at least 2300 children separated from their parents. | Facing condemnation from across the political spectrum, Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the end of his family separation policy that saw at least 2300 children separated from their parents. |
| But there remains no system in place to reunite families, his administration plans to prolong family detention past the legal limit of 20 days and attorneys have identified loopholes that could allow family separations to continue at a smaller scale. | But there remains no system in place to reunite families, his administration plans to prolong family detention past the legal limit of 20 days and attorneys have identified loopholes that could allow family separations to continue at a smaller scale. |
| Today, Guardian correspondents on both sides of the border, in Guatemala and across the US will deliver special reports from the scene and provide updates and analysis on the lingering chaos. | Today, Guardian correspondents on both sides of the border, in Guatemala and across the US will deliver special reports from the scene and provide updates and analysis on the lingering chaos. |
| The latest news: | The latest news: |
| And a fresh dispatch from Brownsville, Texas: | And a fresh dispatch from Brownsville, Texas: |