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Durbin weighs in on Trump Executive Order on Separation of Families

Senator Dick Durbin says the story is far from over after President Trump's executive order on separation of families at the southern border. In a speech on the Senate Floor, Durbin said the executive order lacks teeth to prevent separation...
 

 

 
Durbin says the three-page executive order also doesn't set the stage for reunited families...
 

 

 
Durbin says President Trump's Executive Order attempts to overturn the Flores Settlement, a 1997 court order that set minimum standards for the detention, housing, and release of non-citizen children who are detained by the U.S. government and requires the government to pursue a general policy of releasing children.
 

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