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Trump weighs in on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s saga

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The United States President has weighed in on an incident over the weekend when his Press Secretary was asked to leave a restaurant because of her defense of his policies.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked by the owner of the Red Hen Restaurant in central Virginia, which she later tweeted about.

The incident came amidst a political firestorm in the country over the administration’s zero tolerance policy at the southern border, which separated children from their parents after crossing the border irregularly. The policy has since been rescinded but many of the children have yet to be reunited with their families.

The owner of the restaurant politely asked Sarah Sanders to leave, explaining later to local media that she did so because of the administration’s stance on gay rights in the country. Many of her employees are gay and some were upset over the Trump administration’s family separation policy at the border.

 

This saw the President weigh in on twitter Monday, calling the restaurant’s canopies “filthy” and referring to the doors and windows that badly needed a paint job. He then goes on to say “if the restaurant is dirty outside, it’s dirty on the inside”.

The owner of the Red Hen later said she stood by her decision, quote “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions”. This as protests continue in some parts of the country as federal agencies struggle to reunite children separated at the border.

Julian Castro is a former Housing Secretary in the Obama administration.

“At this point, this issue really is no longer an issue of conservatives or liberals, or Republicans or Democrats, or even of immigration. This is an issue about what is right and what is wrong. And people throughout the country, people of every different background as you can see here, have come together to say that this is not who we should be in the United States of America or anywhere. We also know that the only reason the Trump administration signed an executive order, the President signed the executive order the other day, was because of public pressure; because you made your voice heard.”

The President over the weekend praised his administration’s tough stance at the border.

“Even if they saw weakness… if they see any weakness, they will come by the millions. We have to have strong borders. We’re going to have the wall. We’re going to have the wall. We’ve already started it. We’ve already started it. You know, we’ve already started in San Diego.”

Protestors who gathered near a border processing facility in McAllen, Texas on Saturday unexpectedly encountered a bus carrying immigrant children.

Denise Bernavides was among them.

“I saw a little girl. She had her head on the window and I told her in Spanish that ‘we’re with you, that you’re not alone. That we’re going to help you’. We came with a group of people all the way from Dallas. And we came for this purpose, to let them know that it isn’t right, that they need their parents. They’re in a bus caged like criminals. These are children. I saw a baby in there.”

The government over the weekend released a plan on putting separated families back together. Under the new process, children separated will continue to wait in custody, with reunifications only taking place once the parent’s deportation proceedings are completed.

 

 

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