U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) visited a detention center for immigrant children near the Mexico border Sunday in an attempt to draw attention to the Trump administration policy of separating children from parents.

Parents, even those credibly seeking asylum, have been separated from their children as part of the White House policy.
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Merkley, accompanied by multiple video cameras and the American Civil Liberties Union, shot a Facebook live video as he attempted to gain access to the facility. (The video had been viewed more than 353,000 times within the first several hours.)

He was initially told that a manager would come speak to him when he telephoned into the facility from the front door. The police arrived first.

http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/06/03/u-s-sen-jeff-merkley-was-denied-access-to-detention-center-for-immigrant-children-and-somebody-called-the-police-when-he-went-to-the-door/

President Donald Trump, “who has never been convinced that his aides have his best interests at heart, has felt increasingly aggrieved” in recent months. We have that word from two reporters for the New York Times, Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers, and it fits with what we have seen from him in public.

The reporters explain Trump’s anger as a function of his “sense of paranoia.” But this is typical MSM nonsense. Trump is absolutely right that someone in his administration keeps undermining him.

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Somebody in the administration fired James Comey as FBI director and then couldn’t stick to a straight story about why he was fired, leading to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate it.

Trump has reason to be angry at whoever blew his chance at getting a deal to fund a wall at the southern border. First someone told the Democrats that they could get an amnesty for illegal immigrants who came here as minors without having to agree to any additional measures to enforce immigration laws. Then someone in the administration insisted that there would be conditions, maximalist ones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2018-05-27/trump-is-right-that-someone-is-out-to-get-him?__twitter_impression=true