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> This is objectively false. Nobody "supports" that position at all as a matter of policy

As a matter of policy the Trump administration's position was that making getting caught trying to enter the United States illegally as painful as possible, including family separations and the risk of losing your children.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-dis...

It was a literal policy. It is Trump policy. Try again.

ETA: And just to be clear, even the administration admitted it was their policy, because they later reversed it!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigra...



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