SFGATE: Confusion swirls on border after Trump reversal on families

Confusion swirls on border after Trump reversal on families
Published on June 22, 2018 at 09:27PM by By WILL WEISSERT, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump's order to stop separating migrant children from their parents spread confusion along the border, with officials still working on a plan to reunite families while sending conflicting signals about the state of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. Parents who remained locked up struggled to get in touch with children being held in many cases hundreds of miles away. Some said they didn't even know where their children were. Others said they had been deported without them. Trump himself took a hard line on the crisis, accusing the Democrats of telling "phony stories of sadness and grief." "We cannot allow our country to be overrun by illegal immigrants," he tweeted.