Trump inks order to 'keep families together' amid massive uproar
Trump inks order to 'keep families together' amid massive uproar
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Washington D.C. [United States], June 21 (NT): United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday inked an executive order to "keep families together” following the massive counterattack over his administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

"We're signing an executive order. I consider it to be a very important executive order. It's about keeping families together, while at the same time being sure we have a very powerful, very strong border," Trump was quoted by CNN , as saying.

In The Oval Office where he was joined by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence, said, “The border is just as tough. But we do want to keep families together. We are keeping the family together”.

The order utters other agencies, including the Pentagon, to take steps to get places to house family units.

This comes only just a day after when the US president shielded his policy of separating children from their families who have been unlawfully crossing the southern US-Mexico border, saying, to act against parents for illicit entry, "you have to take the children away."

"I don't want children taken away from parents. When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally - which should happen - you have to take the children away," CNN further quoted Trump, as saying.

He asserted this statement at the National Federation of Independent Businesses 75th Anniversary Celebration.

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