administration, steve bannon, jeff sessions and others, deny that it s a policy. the homeland security secretary again, which is sort of stunning. people criticizinglit. melania trump, although she can t have it both ways, she s criticizing it. and the president of the united states who is seeing it and saying, uh-oh, maybe this isn t exactly what i wanted when i said bgh on the border on immigration. in march homeland security secretary john kelly pre viewed this policy and specifically described it as an effort to deter immigration to t united states. so they can t really have it bothays they can t brag about it as a potential deterrent, and then secretary nielsen s comments have evolved inhe last 24 hours. yesterday it wasn t a policy, today it s a policy for which she ot going to apologize.