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The US military is prepared to provide housing for families detained for entering the country illegally along the southwestern border. President Trump’s latest executive order calls on the US secretary of defense to provide housing for detained immigrants either at existing sites or at facilities to be constructed. It would not be the first time the military has housed civilians.

A diverse community in South Texas is taking a wait-and-see attitude now that President Trump has signed an executive order to replace family separation with a policy of detaining families together. Activists working with parents who’ve already been separated from their children will now turn their attention to reuniting the families, while others in the community say it’s important to stay vigilant.

Trump’s Executive Order Explained: Under the new US policy, parents and children caught crossing the border illegally will be kept together at federal detention centers for the length of their criminal proceedings. But that doesn’t necessarily solve the issue of family separations.

VIDEO: It’s not easy for former prisoners to find work once they’re released. Not only do they have to relearn how to function in normal society, but many find that having a criminal background makes it difficult, if not impossible, to land a good job. But there’s a restaurant owner in Cleveland, Ohio, who’s giving ex-cons a second chance.

He has dressed Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. But master tailor Martin Greenfield didn’t learn the business from his parents or as a young apprentice. His first encounter with a needle and thread came as a teenaged prisoner washing Nazi uniforms at Auschwitz in 1944.