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Melania Trump Pressured President Trump To Change Family Separation Policy

"She's been talking to him about it from the very beginning," a White House official told NPR.

There was a private lobbying force behind President Trump's change of heart on his controversial policy that resulted in thousands of family separations at the southern U.S. border: first lady Melania Trump.

A White House official confirmed to NPR's Sarah McCammon that Mrs. Trump pressed her husband to act

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