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    June 2018 Washington Letter

     

    Immigration

    ABA president urges end to “zero tolerance” policy separating families at southern border

    ABA President Hilarie Bass urged U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen this month to rescind the government’s “zero tolerance” policy instituted in May that has resulted in approximately 2,000 children being separated from their undocumented parents who are entering the United States at the southern border.

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