1. “We’ve got to be keeping families together.”

In an abrupt reversal, President Trump signed an executive order to end the separation of families at the U.S. border — by indefinitely detaining parents and children together.

But it’s unclear whether the courts will allow that, and the president is likely to face an immediate legal challenge from immigration activists.

The order came amid a full-blown political crisis over the separations, and many kinds of protests. The policy’s most vocal defender, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, was confronted at a Mexican restaurant by chanting critics.