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Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government in Response to the June 20, 2018, Executive Order
June 23, 2018 Although an executive order signed by President Trump on Wednesday ended some family separations at the U.S. border, it did so primarily by allowing children to be detained together with their parents. The order does not require immigrant families already separated to be reunited, nor does it guarantee that family separations will not resume. The problem is, therefore, far from solved, and over 2,000 children still need to be returned to their families. Mormon Women for Ethical Government calls upon the U.S. government to immediately reunite these families and to implement humane and ethical alternatives to the indefinite detention of families with children. We also call upon…