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6:10 PM ET, June 20, 2018

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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.
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New York Times:
Trump Plans Executive Order to End Family Separation  —  President Trump is preparing to issue an executive order as soon as Wednesday that ends the separation of families at the border by indefinitely detaining parents and children together, according to a person familiar with the White House plans.
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan  —  The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics says migrant children being separated from their parents at the border are suffering from child abuse.  Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.  Buzz60  —  CONNECT
Associated Press:
Homeland Security drafts plan to end family separation  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is drafting an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together in detention after they are detained crossing the border illegally …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin's ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents  —  Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents.  —  WASHINGTON — The cost of holding migrant children …
Washington Post:
Trump reverses course, signs order ending his policy of separating families at the border
Dara Lind / Vox:   The executive order Trump claims will end family separation, explained
David French / National Review:
By Its Terms, Trump's Executive Order Restores Catch-and-Release
Discussion: Vox, Shakesville and Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Trump Stops Separating Immigrant Families After Claiming He Couldn't
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and Mother Jones
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Trump Just Signed An Order About Children Being Separated From Families
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms.  His Goal: Flip the House  —  Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year …
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Pew Research Center:
Voters More Focused on Control of Congress - and the President - Than in Past Midterms  —  GOP leads on economy, Democrats on health care, immigration  —  The congressional elections are more than four months away, but voter engagement is high when compared with comparable points in previous midterm cycles.
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Senate rejects billions in Trump spending cuts as two Republicans vote ‘no’  —  The Senate on Wednesday rejected billions in spending cuts proposed by the Trump administration as two Republicans joined all Democrats in voting no.  —  The 48-50 vote rebuffed a White House plan to claw …
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Grace Sparks / CNN:   CNN Poll: Support for Democrats ticks up and they retain enthusiasm advantage
Mike Bloomberg:
Statement of Mike Bloomberg on the 2018 Midterm Elections
Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
Socialist Activist Who Harassed Homeland Security Secretary Works For The Department Of Justice  —  One of the activists who chased Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant Tuesday night over the Trump administration's immigration policies is an employee of the Department of Justice …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen's embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border  —  The Trump administration insisted it didn't have a policy of separating children from their parents at the border.  It said that it was merely following the law.  And it said “Congress alone can fix” the mess.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant. Other diners applauded them.
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:   Nielsen's career forever linked to family border separations
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:   White House can't get its story straight on family separation. There could be legal consequences.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
DSA Says They're Coming After More Trump Officials After Ruining Kirstjen Nielsen's Dinner
Discussion: IJR, USA Today and Breitbart
Reveal:
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims  —  President Donald Trump's zero tolerance policy is creating a zombie army of children forcibly injected with medications that make them dizzy, listless, obese and even incapacitated, according to legal filings that show immigrant children …
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Reveal:
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations  —  Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion in the past four years to private companies operating immigrant youth shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and sexual and physical abuse, a Reveal investigation has found.
Roque Planas / HuffPost:   Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Stephen Actually Enjoys Seeing Those Pictures at the Border”: The West Wing Is Fracturing Over Trump's Callous Migrant-Family Policy  —  Miller gloats and Sanders sulks as the president—oblivious to the moral problem and political consequences—bulls ahead.
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Splinter:
Here's Stephen Miller's Cell Phone Number, If You Need It  —  The Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families has been credited primarily to the strenuous efforts of White House adviser Stephen Miller.  Perhaps you would like to call him about it.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Is Locking Accounts For Tweeting Stephen Miller's Phone Number
Wall Street Journal:
Publisher of National Enquirer Subpoenaed in Michael Cohen Probe  —  Prosecutors eye whether company coordinated with ex-Trump lawyer on payment to bury affair allegation  —  Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment …
Eliana Larramendia / ABC News:
Michael Cohen resigns from RNC committee post, sources say  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime confidant and former personal attorney, has resigned from his post as deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee's Finance Committee, sources close to the RNC told ABC News.
Gray Matters / Houston Chronicle:
Flight attendant: I won't work flights that separate immigrant kids from families  —  For the past 29 years I have been a flight attendant for a major U.S. airline.  Several weeks ago, I worked two flights (one to San Antonio and the other to McAllen) which proved to be two of the most …
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Sherman Smith / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kobach's office tells counties to keep enforcing proof of citizenship law  —  Sherman Smith sherman_news  —  The elections director for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told county clerks in a conference call Tuesday to continue enforcing a proof of citizenship law that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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John Hanna / Associated Press:   APNewsBreak: Kobach sought pardon for VP of corporate donor
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:   Kansas secretary of state defies court order, won't register eligible voters
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Melania Calls Secret Service After Actor Peter Fonda Calls For Barron Trump To Be Kidnapped  —  The Office of the First Lady has notified the Secret Service after actor Peter Fonda called for kidnapping Melania and Donald Trump's son, Barron, The Daily Caller has learned exclusively.
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Daily Mail:   Peter Fonda apologizes to Trumps for ‘highly inappropriate and vulgar’ …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giuliani's act of love sets off GOP furor  —  The bizarre tale of the ex-New York mayor's support for an obscure House candidate in Louisiana.  —  Rudy Giuliani's love life is causing trouble for the White House.  —  In a move that blindsided the West Wing and sent Hill Republicans into a tizzy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
REVEALED: Christopher Steele Visited State Department Shortly Before 2016 Election  —  Former British spy Christopher Steele visited the State Department in October 2016 and briefed officials there about his work on the infamous anti-Trump dossier, it was revealed on Wednesday.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States  —  WASHINGTON — Deaths now outnumber births among white people in more than half the states in the country, demographers have found, signaling what could be a faster-than-expected transition to a future in which whites are no longer a majority of the American population.
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senate Nominee Cramer Compares Cages For Migrant Kids To Playgrounds  —  Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) pushed back hard on the idea that keeping border-crossing children in chain-link cages was inhumane, defending the practice in two local radio shows on Wednesday.
Bruce Springsteen:
Bruce's Remarks before “The Ghost Of Tom Joad”  —  In response to requests for the text of Bruce's remarks before he performed “The Ghost of Tom Joad” last night, here is a rough transcript:  —  I never believed that people come to my shows, or rock shows to be told anything.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Protesters shut down Portland ICE facility  —  One person was arrested Tuesday after Portland protesters reportedly shut down a facility used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants.  —  A guard told a woman trying to get into the building that the prison …
Discussion: Washington Press and Splinter
Christopher Brennan / New York Daily News:
American senators to visit Russia at end of month: report  —  A group of American senators will travel to Russia at the end of the month and celebrate Independence Day in Moscow, according to a report.  —  The delegation will arrive in St. Petersburg on June 30 and spend time there before heading …
 
 
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