Trump's Executive Order Won't Reunite Migrant Parents & Children Torn Apart

The Trump Administration will cease separating parents and children at the southern border following a massive public outcry.

But the parents and children who have already been separated won't be reunited. So we will have the spectacle of migrant children in detention centers, er, summer camps.

Public pressure ought to remain so that the Trump Administration will remedy this injustice and crisis of their own making. But I'm sure Trump is banking that the public will think he has done enough. Then again they might be forced to act should we see more images of children in cages or children crying

The executive order will also attempt to hold parents and children detained indefinitely. Under the current system, the border patrol cannot detain people who illegally cross the border for more than 20 days. This will very likely end up in the courts.

First Daughter Ivanka Trump tweeted in part, "Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border."

This is like thanking the arsonist for putting out the fire he started.