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1:25 PM ET, June 20, 2018

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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters  —  Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
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The Texas Tribune:
Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect  —  Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse.  —  Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, WPLG-TV and The Week
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Splinter
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
SOM - State of Michigan:
MDCR Statement on President Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy and its Impact on Michigan  —  Contact: Vicki Levengood - levengoodv@michigan.gov, 517-241-7978  —  Lansing, MI-The Michigan Department of Civil Rights today announced that the Department is actively engaged in assessing the impact …
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and New Republic
Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Off the Kuff
Reveal:
Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations
Discussion: Raw Story and The Crime Report
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.
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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 …
Fox News:
White House considering executive action to prevent family separations at border  —  The White House is considering executive action to allow children to stay with parents caught crossing the border illegally, Fox News has learned — a step that could avoid the family separations that have triggered …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:   Trump says he will sign ‘something’ soon to keep immigrant families together
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Kirstjen Nielsen heckled by protesters at Mexican restaurant.  Other diners applauded them.  —  Protesters entered a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening to heckle Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.  She appeared to sit quietly with her head …
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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.
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump to sign executive action halting family separations
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress, Slate and Political Wire
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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Wall Street Journal:
Germany's Largest Auto Makers Back Abolition of EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs  —  The U.S. ambassador to Germany is expected to relay the industry offer in meetings with Trump administration  —  BERLIN—When the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, returns to Washington for consultation …
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Pierre Briançon / Politico:
Three fudges and a funeral for eurozone reform
New York Times:   Merkel and Macron Try to Save European Union, and Themselves
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Corey Lewandowski on undocumented child with Down syndrome separated from mother: ‘Womp womp’  —  Washington (CNN)Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally.
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CNN:
What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border  —  Mesa, Arizona (CNN)As the Trump administration has ramped up the practice of separating children from their parents at the border with no clear plan for reuniting them, critics have been unsparing, calling it “government-sanctioned child abuse.”
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
13 GOP senators ask administration to pause separation of immigrant families
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and IJR
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Explaining Trump's Claim About Canadians Smuggling Shoes Because of ‘Massive’ Tariffs  —  President Trump said on Tuesday that Canadians were smuggling shoes across the border “because the tariffs are so massive.”  But under Nafta, Canada does not charge a tariff on American shoe imports.
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Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trudeau on family separations: 'What's going on in the United States is wrong'
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
The Guardian:
US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year  —  It is unclear whether Adam Waldman's 2017 visits had connection to Oleg Deripaska  —  A longtime US lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
301 migrants who arrived at border over past seven months not family units: DHS  —  U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday that 301 migrants who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border from October 2017 to April 2018 were found not to have a valid parent-child relationship despite posing as a family unit.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Washington Post:   Trump didn't invent family separation, but his administration was willing to try it
New York Times:
Outside Trump Hotel, an Uproar.  Inside, a Calm Sea of Conservative Cash.  —  WASHINGTON — To anyone with even a cursory relationship to television or social media, a charged and emotional battle over the Trump administration's approach to immigration seems to have seeped into every dimension of American life.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, has been removed from ministry after a sex abuse allegation  —  The former archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has been removed from ministry in response to allegations that he sexually abused a teen 50 years ago while he was a priest in New York.
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WJLA-TV:
DC Cardinal McCarrick removed from ministry for alleged sex abuse of teen 50 years ago
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Dems Doing Well in Senate, CD03  —  Trump popular, but not decisive factor  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Incumbent Joe Manchin holds a small lead over GOP challenger Patrick Morrisey in the race for U.S. Senate in the deep red state of West Virginia.  Even though Donald Trump is widely popular …
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Poll: McSally holds 14-point lead in Arizona GOP Senate primary  —  (R-Ariz.) surged into first place with a commanding 14-point lead in Arizona's closely watched GOP Senate primary, according to a new poll.  —  A poll conducted by Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Mark Meadows Drops Multiple BOMBSHELLS In Hearing About Clinton, Russia Probes  —  North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows made two startling claims in a House hearing on Tuesday, asserting that there is “growing evidence” that FBI officials altered documentation of witness interviews in the Hillary Clinton and Russia probes.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
In Trump's world, morality is for losers  —  “Virtue-signaling” is a snide little phrase that people vaguely of the “right” invented to tease people vaguely of the “left.”  Like “limousine liberal” or “champagne socialist,” it implies insincerity and self-righteousness.
Discussion: Hot Air and AOL
Matthew Walther / The Week:
Why Trump country is unfazed by the child separation crisis  —  The bishop of Tucson, Franklin Graham, and Michelle Obama agree about very few things, but the inhumanity of President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policy is one of them.  The New York Times and the New York Post, National Review …
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.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘Nasty guy’: Trump attacks critic, touts accomplishments in House GOP meeting on immigration  —  Rep. Mark Sanford was at the airport in Charleston, S.C., for four hours of “airplane hell” when President Trump veered from his speech on immigration to the South Carolina Republican.
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott urges congressional action on separated immigrant families: “This disgraceful condition must end.”  —  “This disgraceful condition must end; and it can only end with action by Congress to reform the broken immigration system,” Abbott wrote in a letter to all members of the Texas delegation.
 
 
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trumpism, Realized
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
George and Amal Clooney Donate $100,000 to Help Migrant Children
Yahoo! News:
Trump no longer ‘moral leader of free world’: top rights body
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
This Doctor Treated Kids Separated From Their Parents And What She Saw Is Heartwrenching
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Jewish extremists taunt 'Ali's on the grill' at slain toddler's relatives
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Alabama musician's shows cancelled after he ‘volunteers’ on Facebook to ‘shoot’ immigrants
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Axios:
Trump “boxed in,” won't back down on family separation
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Politico:
Democratic candidates vow to dump Pelosi
Jeff Sessions / USA Today:
We don't want to separate parents from kids
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