When an inquiry was made as to the intention to continue to deter illegal border crossing with family separation policies, Trump responded, "We're not looking into it".
Trump also accused Obama of building "cages" that he thought were "very inappropriate".
"President Obama separated children".
"In my 30 years as an agent, I have never witnessed the conditions we are now facing on the Southwest border", said Rodolfo Karisch, chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector, which is responsible for 320 miles of the almost 2,000-mile USA border with Mexico.
One such request that proved to be a point of contention, according to new reporting by NBC News, was over Trump's desire to reinstate the policy of family separations.
The ruling removes at least temporarily a controversial Trump administration strategy aimed at slowing a flood of immigrants, many of them families from Central America, that swelled last month to the highest level in a decade.
"Today's victory is especially important amidst reports that the Trump administration is planning to move toward even more extreme immigration policies", said Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Melissa Crow, referencing much of the speculation about Nielsen's resignation on Sunday.
Trump, who drew sharp criticism for falsely saying during the 2016 presidential campaign that Mexico was sending rapists and drug runners to the United States, said on Wednesday that those comments were tame compared to the stories he had heard since.
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The former was everything Liverpool thought they'd purchased last summer, a mixture of combative tackling in deep-lying positions and slaloming runs past opponents into the final third. "But we've got to be pleased".
Trump's battle to prevent illegal immigration and soaring numbers of asylum seekers has turned into the biggest political fight in the country ahead of next year's presidential election. "They're coming like it's a picnic, like let's go to Disneyland".
"We're not looking to do that", the president told reporters on Tuesday before a meeting with Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, adding a raft of criticisms of USA immigration policy and Congress.
Taken together, in the era of tribalism and identity politics, American public views on many aspects of the immigration issue follow the now-familiar partisan divide.
The Department of Homeland Security said it arrested or denied entry to more than 103,000 people along the border last month, more than double the March 2018 figure.
The judge gave the government two days to allow the asylum seekers to enter the United States, and said they could be subject to detention or parole while they await adjudication of their admission application. During her time as Homeland Security secretary, she oversaw widely condemned policies including the forcible separation of families and the caging of children at the southern border.
"He just wants to separate families", an anonymous senior administration official toldCNN.
"The humanitarian crisis created by a massive influx of family groups and unaccompanied children in recent months has forced CBP to reallocate resources away from law enforcement, trade and travel missions to process and provide care for those in our custody", Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez said in a press release.
A judge this week clipped one of Trump's latest efforts to keep asylum seekers off USA soil: an experimental policy - known as Migrant Protection Protocols - requiring migrants to stay south of the US border until their hearings.
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