The president’s proposed changes to asylum laws keep would-be migrants in Central America. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“Our plan includes critical measures to protect migrant children from exploitation and abuse. This includes a new system to allow Central American minors to apply for asylum in their home countries, and reform to promote family reunification for unaccompanied children, thousands of whom wind up on our border doorstep.”
— President Trump, in remarks at the White House, Jan. 19, 2019
“We have asked Congress to close border security loopholes so that illegal immigrant children can be safely and humanely returned back home.”
— Trump, in an Oval Office address on immigration, Jan. 8, 2019
“We want to save lives. We want children to be safe. The children are being decimated. And I’m not talking about necessarily children in our country. I’m talking about wonderful children that are coming up from other places, whether it’s Honduras or Guatemala, or El Salvador or Mexico, or other places. And we have to take care of those children also. We can’t let them die on the way up.”
— Trump, in a Rose Garden news conference, Jan. 4, 2019
View the complete January 23 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.