Trump administration moves spark fears of new immigration crackdown

Trump denies plans for ‘big’ action but officials suggest otherwise, raising prospect of renewed family separations

Donald Trump flatly denied on Tuesday that he was planning a “big” new crackdown on migrants at the southern border, even as senior administration officials briefed reporters on the details of such a plan in the works, leaders in charge of immigration policy were shuffled, and insiders described Trump in private as apoplectic over a recent increase in migrant arrivals.

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