Melania Trump’s Role in Reuniting the Kids with Their Parents

US President Donald Trump has enhanced working on reuniting children and their parents who had been separated at the US Mexico border after entering the US illegally. The President has directed the federal agencies to look into the issue. It was his first step in the implementation of his executive order, which is reverse of a policy, which had earlier drawn criticism from the world leaders.

The announcement by US President Donald Trump came shortly after his wife and US first lady Melania Trump made a visit to a border detention facility in Texas where the children are being kept. The photos, video footages, and audiotapes of wailing children and children sitting in cages had sparked protests and anger, as the images were broadcast everywhere in the world.

Donald Trump said in a cabinet meeting that he has already instructed the departments of justice, homeland security and health and human services “to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite these previously separated groups”.

For the past few months, Trump has been facing international protest over the separation policy, now that Trump had signed the executive order to stop the separations and keep families together during immigration, his supporters are hopeful that it’ll silence his critics at least for the time being. But the order still has some legal challenges and administration lawyers have filed a request to modify a 1997 court order that limits the detention of minors for up to 20 days by the government.

The present order advocates, parents can accompany children to the front of the line for immigration proceedings, but the order does not end the 10 weeks old zero tolerance policy, which calls for the prosecution of immigrants crossing the border illegally under the criminal entry statute of the country.

The administration has also called for a permanent legislative order but congressional Republicans said the House is more likely to reject two immigration bills, which was done to halt the practice of splitting up families and also to address a wide range of other immigration issues.

Republican US representatives Mark Meadows, said he did not think either of the bills had enough support to pass in the Republican-controlled House. Meadows said, “There is still some work to be done as we grapple with the immigration issues”.

While the Speaker Paul Ryan said, “We were never going to be able to promise an outcome but we could promise an effort and a fair process and that is what is being delivered on today”.

Both the bills were backed by Trump and his party but are opposed by Democrats and other immigration advocacy groups, but may support the construction of wall alongside the US and Mexico border as proposed by Trump and by denying of visas to the visitors from that part of the world.

The bill also denies a chance of citizenship to the immigrants who were illegally in the US since their childhood. If the bill is cleared in the house but is sure to face uncertainty in the Senate.