Former first lady Melania Trump has revealed that she persuaded her husband Donald Trump to reverse his administration’s notorious policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US border. In her new memoir “Melania” due to be released next week, she writes that she told the former president that she was concerned about the policy, which she described as “unacceptable,” according to a copy of the book obtained by The Guardian. “I immediately addressed my deep concerns with Donald regarding the family separations, emphasizing the trauma it was causing these families.

As a mother myself, I stressed: ‘The government should not be taking children away from their parents.’ I communicated with great clarity..

.‘This has to stop,’” she wrote. Chilling moment judge cowers under desk before he is shot dead by his 'friend' Major bank suffers mass outage - causing panic as bank balances drop to $0 “I felt strongly that the situation demanded urgent attention and action.

“Donald assured me that he would investigate the issue, and on 20 June, he announced the end of the family separation policy.” Around 2,300 children were taken from their families when the “zero tolerance” policy was put into place while Trump was president in 2018. Images of children held in cages at border facilities and recordings of kids crying for their parents sparked widespread outrage and raised questions of morality from some Republicans.

The policy sought to maxim.