How American airline, republicans force Trump to soft pedal on 'harsh' migration policy

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- An airline in the United states (US), American Airlines, has asked President Donald Trump to stop using its planes in transporting children separated from their families

- This was in reaction to the recent migration policy instituted by the president, which many term inhumane and wrong

- Reacting to this, Trump has signed a new law that softpedals on the policy in a bid to make the country liberal and more accommodating

In opposition to Donald Trump's rather controversial migration policy, an airline in the United States (US), American Airlines, has openly asked the administration of the president not to use its planes in the transportation of infant migrants who have been separated from their families, The Independent reports.

The policy separates parents from their children so they can face prosecution.Many young migrants have been taken from their families, with with a lot of them accommodated in a newly constructed tent city in Texas.

This move by Trump has been seen by many Americans as “not at all aligned with the values of American Airlines”. The carrier said that it had asked the presidency to “immediately refrain” from bringing children separated from their parents due to the new policy on board its aircraft.

American Airlines in a statement said: “We have no desire to be associated with separating families, or worse, to profit from it.”

The airline said it contracts with the presidency and has formerly carried refugees but that since the government does not release information about its flights, the company does not know if the administration has used its aircraft to transport children affected by the new policy.

The statement further said: “We would be extremely disappointed to learn that is the case.” In condemning the Trump administration’s harsh immigration turn, the airline joined a global voice that has included even republicans in congress.

Reacting to this, Trump, under pressure from his own party to act, recently signed an executive order aimed at keeping families together even in detention.

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Trump said: “We’re going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime, by all of the things that we don’t stand for and that we don’t want.”

In an earlier post, NAIJ.com reported that Theresa May, the prime minister of Britain, had condemned Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy which had seen children separated from their families and put in cages as "deeply disturbing" and "wrong".

The British prime minister stated that she "clearly and unequivocally" decries the policy, which had seen thousands of children forcibly separated from their parents at the Mexican border.

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