Newly obtained memo shows Nielsen signed off on family separation policy she claimed never existed

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Another liar-for-trumpo gets caught.....

Following data showing officials had kidnapped nearly 2,000 migrant children from parents at the border during a six week period this past spring, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen insisted there was no “zero tolerance” policy at all, tweeting that “we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”

But according to a newly obtained memo, that was a lie. Period.
“The memo, first reported on by the Washington Post on April 26, but never previously published, provides evidence that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen signed off on a policy of family separation despite her repeated claims denying that there was such a policy,”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...y-separation-policy-she-claimed-never-existed