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Trump says to sign executive order to end controversial practice of family separations

Xinhua | Updated: 2018-06-21 00:47

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Immigrant children now housed in a tent encampment under the new "zero tolerance" policy by the Trump administration are shown walking in single file at the facility near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, US on June 19, 2018. [Photo/Agencies]

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will sign an executive order in "a little while" to end the administration's roundly-criticized practice of separating families who illegally crossed the US border.

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