OTTAWA— Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the United States’ practice of separating migrant children from parents, calling the Trump policy “wrong” and “unacceptable,” just hours before the U.S. president reversed his stand.Speaking as he entered a Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday, Trudeau said “What’s going on in the United States is wrong.“I can’t imagine what the families living through this are enduring. Obviously this is not the way we do things in Canada.”Trudeau, who had declined to offer firm condemnation on Monday, said in French what is happening in the U.S. “is unacceptable” and later told the Commons the government “would continue to monitor” the situation south of the border. Trudeau’s words echoed those of Pope Francis, and British Prime Minister Theresa May who told the British House of Commons Wednesday that separating families is “deeply disturbing’’ and “wrong.’’“The pictures of children being held in what appear to be cages are deeply disturbing,” she said. “This is wrong. This is not something we agree with. This is not the U.K.’s approach.”In an exclusive interview with Reuters, the Pope said he supported statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the family separations “contrary to our Catholic values” and “immoral.”“It’s not easy, but populism is not the solution,” Francis said on Sunday night.The condemnations came before U.S. President Donald Trump met with congressional leaders early Wednesday afternoon and declared at a photo op that he would sign an executive order to ensure families were not separated at border crossings. Hours later he did just that, however the order does allow American authorities to detain families for an indefinite period of time until the end of their legal case.Trump said his order was “pre-em ...
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