A week after her peculiar fashion statement distracted attention from her visit to a Texas facility where migrant children are detained, Melania Trump is planning a second trip to the border.
“Yes, Mrs. Trump plans to visit additional facilities sometime this week,” her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN Tuesday.
Details were sketchy, but it was likely the first lady would visit an immigration processing detention center, which was part of her plan after visiting the McAllen detention center last Thursday before flooding stopped her from going.
The first lady “wants to continue to check on children,” Grisham said. “The first lady is moved by what she is hearing, and what she saw in Texas, and she wants to again see and listen for herself what is happening in these places.”
The first lady left the country confused last week when she wore a jacket with an inscrutable message on the back that read, “I really don’t care, do u?”
Grisham said there was no message being sent, only to be contradicted by President Trump, who tweeted out that she was targeting the “fake news media.”
Melania Trump herself offered no explanation for her head-scratching fashion choice.
More than 2,300 migrant children, including infants and toddlers, have been forcibly separated from their parents at the border under Trump’s “zero tolerance” stance on illegal immigration.
Trump, after saying for days that only Congress could undo the policy, did an abrupt about-face as worldwide outrage spread. He eliminated the separations, but still insisted that his zero tolerance policy remained in effect.
Some of the children have been reunited with parents or family members, but more than 2,000 still remain locked up in federal custody.
Trump has not visited any of the facilities where the children have been detained, and has not publicly announced plans to do so.