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Biden’s son Beau Biden and another giant of the Senate who both men called a friend, Ted Kennedy, died of the same aggressive tumor. McCain “could not stand the abuse of power wherever he saw it, in whatever form, in whatever country”, Biden said. No speakers uttered Donald Trump’s name, but Biden was not the only one to make what some saw as a veiled reference to the president. Amid personal memories, there were references to current political divisions – and to the presidency of Trump, which deeply troubled the senator. “He would not stand by as people tried to trample the constitution or the Bill of Rights, including the first amendment.” Earlier, as a motorcade made the eight-mile journey from the state capitol to the church, Vietnam veterans in wheelchairs joined children holding American flags along the route, waving goodbye. Five days of services began in Phoenix on Wednesday, which would have been McCain’s 82nd birthday. A single-file procession wound through the copper-domed capitol, where McCain’s body lay in state. ‘It's going to be difficult to fill his shoes’: Arizona remembers John McCain Read more On Thursday, McCain’s body was flown to Washington, where he will lie in state at the US Capitol on Friday. Speakers will include presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama. Trump is not invited.

https://t.co/bYCKta2Bhs — Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) August 13, 2018 Kellyanne Conway’s husband is a critic of Trump What happens when you combine an outspoken critic of Trump and a White House advisor? https://t.co/dTjUk7kApQ — George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 14, 2018 This is not the first time the lawyer has tweeted about the president. Rhode Island father and son compete -- against each other Need to settle a family political dispute? Registered under the same home address, David Quiroa Sr., 47, and David Quiroa Jr., 22, are running for the Rhode Island House seat. According to the Associated Press, the two tend to argue over Trump’s presidency. “It’ll be interesting, for sure,” Quiroa Jr. told The Associated Press. “What better way to argue with my father than on the political level? Even if it’s to motivate to stop him.” This will be the second time Quiroa Sr. will run for the seat after losing the primary over a decade ago. Parents fund son’s opposing candidate Earlier this year, Kevin Nicholson announced his Senate bid to run for the Republican nomination of Wisconsin -- and among his financial adversaries were none other than his parents. However, Nicholson told ABC News he was not surprised by his parent's actions.

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Ed Bledsoe, a man who lost his wife and two grandchildren to a wildfire in California, describes the final time he spoke to his grandson over the phone, saying he just wanted to be there to protect his family.

Jelsin, who is six, squeezed his mother’s hands as she offered a hopeful message to parents still kept from their children. Will separated families be reunited? More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents under the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. But attorneys with the Texas Civil Rights Project, which represents hundreds of separated families, said it has “grave concerns about the government’s ability to track parents and children who have been caught up in this crisis”. With no clear process in place, it’s possible some families will never be reunited. Padilla is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government, an action she hopes will help hundreds of other asylum-seeking parents separated from their children. But after she was released on 6 July, she was still forced to wait more than week before her son was returned, to live with her at a temporary home in a Seattle suburb. As of Friday, the federal Department of Heath and Human Services Department (DHHS) had identified 2,551 children aged between five and 17 who were placed in its custody while the family separation policy was in effect. Fifty-seven had been reunited with their families; the department said safety concerns meant the other 46 remained apart. Padilla and her son were detained on 18 May, shortly after crossing the border with a group of migrants they had joined in Guatemala.

My own personal rules: 1. These rules have served me well for years and I have many warm relationships with family and friends who believe the polar opposite of the things I believe. Hasn't worked every time, but the exceptions are rare. : "It's great that you care so much about what's going on in this country, and that you are passionate about your beliefs. Instead, we could try taking turns just listening to each other with an open mind, asking questions to understand where each other is coming from. Or, we could just agree to put politics aside and spend our time together [fill in preferred activities]." The person you argue with has deep emotional reasons for his/her position, has established a worldview that shields that person from the perceived problem, and experiences contrary facts and logic as a very frightening threat. ?You seem to feel very strongly about this. (Try to get to the basis of the feelings in terms of the personal threat, not some external situation.) Listen respectfully with an open mind but don't argue.

How does the removal of children from their migrating families end up in the political arena? I do not want to write about politics. I want to write about morality and humanity. There is no place in our society for intentional, unnecessary and arbitrary cruelty to children. It isn’t about deterrence of illegal immigration. It is merely about exploiting innocent children to punish the parents. It is tantamount to locking up the children of American white-collar criminals to get their parents to admit to a crime or implicate someone else. We wouldn’t stand for it; it is fodder for underworld crime novels. Today’s crisis stinks of the decades of removal of Native American children from their families to get a white education, a policy committed in similar manner in Australia against its indigenous people. Every child taken from a parent’s arms is your child or my child.

"We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country," Trump wrote in a tweet that hammered undocumented migrants on Sunday. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order," he wrote. Images of scared children and depictions of shattered families that tested the nation's self-image as a beacon of compassion thwarted the President's efforts to return to full steam ahead. His own bid to bail himself out with an executive order ending separations only heightened a sense of incompetence as the White House couldn't explain how it would reunite families. For four straight days last week, there was no White House press briefing, adding to the sense of disarray. As a new week dawns, Trump will need to extricate himself from the mess before it does more damage to his party ahead of the midterm elections in November and try somehow to regain his dominance of the political narrative. If his administration can finally get a handle on the family separations, it's possible the crisis could fade. Trump tweeted on January 18. He has publicly speculated about pardoning himself if the special counsel finds he transgressed. There is a strong argument that Trump understands the instincts of his key voters on immigration better than other Republicans and the media -- even if his actions are seen by critics as an abrogation of the moral values on which America is built.

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Donald Trump on Thursday put an end to his family separation policy, but attorneys are concerned the practice will continue, as they struggle to reunite parents and children without any mechanism in place to do so. These types of allegations could be used to break up families.” Separately, he was concerned that the executive order did not include a plan to reunite families. McKinney said detention facilities have different rules about phone access. Child separations: what does Trump's order actually mean? Mass family separations first began in April, when the administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy that saw parents placed in adult detention facilities and children labeled “unaccompanied alien minors” and placed in health department-operated shelters. By separating migrant children from their parents, the government created an influx of unaccompanied children who could shift the balance of these shelters and impact the agency’s ability to reunite children with their parents, because their parent is in detention or has been deported. Lee Gelernt, the attorney on that case, said the circumstances that led to the separation of the child and mother, known as Ms L in court documents, could happen again. Migrant children can be separated from their parents if authorities prove they are unfit to parent the child, are abusive or neglectful, but Gelernt said: “What we’ve seen is the government decide it is in the best interest to take the child away in other situations.” Ms L and her daughter were reunited shortly after the ACLU expanded her case into a class-action lawsuit seeking an end to family separation. He said the ACLU also plans to ask the judge to demand the government quickly reunite the children who have already been separated. “When the government wants to arrest people they get the resources together,” Gelernt said.