{"id":402836,"date":"2019-04-10T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-reportedly-told-border-patrol-to-refuse-to-let-migrants-into-the-us\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:29:17","slug":"trump-reportedly-told-border-patrol-to-refuse-to-let-migrants-into-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-reportedly-told-border-patrol-to-refuse-to-let-migrants-into-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reportedly Told Border Patrol to Refuse to Let Migrants Into the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>During a visit to Calexico, California last Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly told Border Patrol agents to defy U.S. law and refuse to allow migrants into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehind the scenes,\u201d <em>CNN<\/em><span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/08\/politics\/trump-family-separation-el-paso-kirstjen-nielsen\/index.html\">reported<\/a><span> <\/span>Monday, citing two anonymous sources, \u201cthe president told border agents to not let migrants in. Tell them we don\u2019t have the capacity, he said. If judges give you trouble, say, \u2018Sorry, judge, I can\u2019t do it. We don\u2019t have the room.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the president left the room, agents sought further advice from their leaders, who told them they were not giving them that direction and if they did what the president said they would take on personal liability,\u201d according to<span> <\/span><em>CNN<\/em>. \u201cYou have to follow the law, they were told.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-2070289557\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-1523048496\">\n<aside class=\" callout inline-callout callout--subscribe callout--dark\" id=\"truth-73230102\">\n<h2>Uncompromised, uncompromising news<\/h2>\n<p>Get reliable, independent news and commentary delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Critics were quick to argue that the president\u2019s reported remarks amount to a blatant violation of his constitutional duty:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is extraordinarily dangerous and a clear breach of his oath of office. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0SngKUsVR1\">https:\/\/t.co\/0SngKUsVR1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kenneth Zinn (@kennethzinn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennethzinn\/status\/1115550371550760960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president also aggressively pushed to reinstate his family separation policy,<span> <\/span><em>CNN<span> <\/span><\/em>reported, confirming<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/trump-has-months-been-urging-administration-reinstate-child-separation-policy-n992021\">earlier reporting<\/a><span> <\/span>from<span> <\/span><em>NBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just wants to separate families,\u201d an anonymous senior administration official told<span> <\/span><em>CNN<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN<\/em>\u2018s report came just as a federal judge in California<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/judge-orders-halt-trump-policy-returning-asylum-seekers-mexico-n992271\">blocked Trump\u2019s policy<\/a><span> <\/span>of forcing some asylum-seekers to return to Mexico as they await a court appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Charanya Krishnaswami, advocacy director for the Americas at Amnesty International USA, welcomed the judge\u2019s ruling in a statement, calling the president\u2019s policy \u201ccruel and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsylum-seekers passing through Mexico have already endured dangerous journeys to flee desperate situations,\u201d Krishnaswami said. \u201cReturning them to Mexico and forcing them to wait there would put them at real risk of serious human rights violations. As it currently&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trump-reportedly-told-border-patrol-to-refuse-to-let-migrants-into-the-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit to Calexico, California last Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly told Border Patrol agents to defy U.S. law and refuse to allow migrants into the country. \u201cBehind the scenes,\u201d CNN reported Monday, citing two anonymous sources, \u201cthe president told border agents to not let migrants in. Tell them we don\u2019t have the capacity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}