Senate Republicans Move to End Trump Policy on Child Separation Video
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON Republican senators moved on Tuesday to defuse a political crisis by seeking passage of legislation that would swiftly bring an end to President Trumps practice of separating children from their parents when families cross into the United States illegally.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said that all of the members of the Republican conference support a plan that keeps families together, endorsing an approach that would provide legal authority to detain parents and children together while their legal status in the country is assessed by the courts.
Asylum claims would be expedited by adding more immigration judges or allowing families to be processed before others, Republican senators said.
Mr. McConnell said he planned to reach out to Democrats to support the effort, hoping to stanch the political damage from an administration policy that led to heartbreaking stories of children separated from their mothers and brutal images of children in makeshift detention camps.
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bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)and you think Trump will allow this change, even if he signs it or is overridden? Remember, he's never wrong, a stable genius. Canadian shoes are more important than people to him.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)McConnell is only doing this because of the massive blowback from separating these children from their parents. He fears that this debacle will lead to the Democrats taking the Senate back and he will no longer be majority leader, which will put an end to packing the courts with Gorsuch clones.
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)Like Ted Lieu said, we don't care if you apologize, just stop separating the children.
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)My guess is yes.
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)The longer they stay the more seats we get to flip.
But it is not fucking worth it.
msongs
(67,417 posts)kyburbonkid
(251 posts)This is so typical of the nazi (cough) republicans. Mitch McConnell is just now recognizing how evil this all looks in the "OPTICS". What a bunch of heartless sickOs we have running this government.