Melania Trump says she forced Donald to drop hardline immigration policy

Ex-first lady says she told Trump to stop separating children from parents and addresses jacket controversy in book

Melania Trump describes in her new memoir how she made her husband, then president Donald Trump, drop a signature hardline immigration policy under which migrant children were separated from their parents, stoking domestic and international uproar.

This has to stop," the former first lady says she told her husband, emphasizing the trauma it was causing these families" and seeing him swiftly comply, ending the policy on 20 June 2018.