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The administration spent June 24 trying to defend and relabel its family-separation crackdown, but the fallout kept getting worse. The policy had become the defining Trump-world screwup of the moment, and the White House was stuck explaining why children were ripped from parents in the first place.
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The administration spent June 24 trying to defend and relabel its family-separation crackdown, but the fallout kept getting worse. The policy had become the defining Trump-world screwup of the moment, and the White House was stuck explaining why children were ripped from parents in the first place.
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The administration spent June 24 trying to defend and relabel its family-separation crackdown, but the fallout kept getting worse. The policy had become the defining Trump-world screwup of the moment, and the White House was stuck explaining why children were ripped from parents in the first place.
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