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Van Hollen Visits Texas Illegal Immigrant Detention Centers

June 19th, 2018 by WCBC Radio

Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are calling for Congress to pass a law ending the Trump administration’s practice of separating and detaining families trying to cross the border into the United States, but the two sides remain sharply divided on what that bill should look like. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and officials from the Department of Homeland Security have defended the practice of separately detaining children and parents trying to cross the border, which has led to about 2,000 children being separated from their parents in the past 45 days. That has earned the Trump administration significant pushback from Democratic lawmakers, several of whom headed to the Texas border and detention centers inland on Sunday to draw attention to the issue and stump for bills they have filed in Congress — which have failed to earn any Republican support.  U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat,  spent Sunday visiting some of the Texas facilities…

 

One Response to “Van Hollen Visits Texas Illegal Immigrant Detention Centers”

  1. June 19, 2018 at 7:28 pm, charles pennington said:

    THIS HAS BEEN ON THE BOOKS SINCE LATE 90S

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