June 29th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
On Thursday, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, announced new funding to help children impacted by the Trump Administration’s family separation policy as part of the Fiscal Year 2019 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, which passed the Committee today with broad bipartisan support. The legislation includes $1.3 billion for the Unaccompanied Children (UAC) program, which handles children who have been separated from their parents at the border and has seen a huge influx following the Administration’s zero tolerance policy. Van Hollen said that the President’s decisions are tearing apart families who are experiencing unimaginable horrors at home and seeking asylum. He says it will be viewed as a dark moment in the nation’s history…
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