Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

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The report shows how officials at the Justice Department pushed the policy in meetings and directed its teams to prosecute all parents, regardless of how young their children were.

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Justice officials drove family separation policy, draft watchdog report says

<p>‘We need to take away children’, then-attorney general Jeff Sessions is reported to have told officials</p>

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Top justice department officials led policy that separated migrant parents from children, report claims

Top officials in the US Justice Department were the "driving force" behind President Donald Trump's controversial zero tolerance immigration policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their families, according to a draft of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation report reviewed by The New York Times. 

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New York Times: Top Justice Department officials were 'driving force' behind migrant children separation

Top officials at the Justice Department were the chief drivers of President Trump's immigration policy mandating the separation of those suspected of crossing the border illegally from their children, according to notes and a watchdog investi

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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions told several U.S. attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 they "need to take away children" as part of an immigration enforcement plan.

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Jeff Sessions told federal prosecutors they 'need to take away children' at border: Report

“We need to take away children,” the then-attorney general told Justice Department prosecutors, according to a draft inspector general's report.

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Jeff Sessions, Top DOJ Officials 'Were A Driving Force' Behind Family Separations: Report

As Attorney General under President Donald Trump in 2018, Jeff Sessions ordered the separation of migrant children from their parents and even other siblings. Rod Rosenstein, who would go on to gain a high profile under the Mueller Russia probe, was a complicit partner in that project. “We need to take away children,” Attorney General […]

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Jeff Sessions was a ‘driving force’ behind child separations – Rod Rosenstein said they should include infants: NYT

"No, this is not President Xi talking about incarcerating Uighurs. This is the former US AG," Hans Kristensen said.

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'We need to take away children': Bombshell report alleges former AG Jeff Sessions and ex-deputy AG Rod Rosenstein were aggressively in favor of separating migrant families at the US-Mexico border

Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it clear what Trump wanted, according to a two-year inquiry by the department's inspector general into the "zero-tolerance" family-separation policy.

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'We need to take away children,' no matter how young, Justice Department officials said

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‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said

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