Showing posts with label Senate Democrats reject GOP legislative fix to stop family separations. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 21, 2018


By Washington Examiner, June 19, 2018

Senate Democrats indicated Tuesday they may not agree to narrow legislation that would end the separation of children from parents who cross into the country illegally at the southern border.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., refused to say if he and other Democrats would support a bill that Republicans are working on, and when pressed, said several times that President Trump should act on his own to stop these family separations from happening.