GOP lawmakers preparing to vote on bill allowing migrant children to be detained longer than 20 days
Source: The Hill
BY MARY TYLER MARCH - 06/23/18 10:06 PM EDT
GOP lawmakers are reportedly readying an immigration bill that would allow detained migrant children to stay in detention centers with their parents for more than 20 days, senior White House and Hill officials told ABC News on Saturday.
The bill would undue a decades-old provision that prohibits the federal government from keeping children in immigration detention centers for more than 20 days.
The news comes days after the Justice Department asked a federal district court to modify the rule, known as the Flores settlement, which runs up against President Trump's recent executive order. The order aimed to stop his administration's "zero tolerance" policy that led to the separations of thousands of migrant families who had entered the U.S. illegally.
The policy, announced by the Trump administration in April, seeks to aggressively prosecute immigrants who cross into the U.S. illegally via the southern border. Administration officials initially acknowledged the measure could lead to family separations, a practice which they said could deter future illegal immigration attempts.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/393819-gop-lawmakers-preparing-to-vote-on-bill-allowing-migrant-children-to-be
This photo of a mother tying her child's shoes, and this same child that was bawling when her mother was being frisked.................and then the people in the GOP, that are going to try and extend the 20 day..................I just have to ask, do any of there kids ask there GOP parents are you that fucking heartless and are your thinking the same thing about me, that you would hate me.
My first impression of seeing this mother do this, showed to me that she loves her child more than the assholes standing around her, and I am struggling to understand how someone can not look at those pictures with any heart is amazing, and not feel that this woman is trying to protect her daughter, because that young daughter knows that the mother that is tying her shoes lace is her best friend and loves her with all of her heart, and is trying to protect her.........................nothing more and nothing less, but to love her daughter and have that compassion under duress.
This just breaks my heart, to see this picture........................
I wish I had the means to start a # tag, whats the little girls name...............because twenty years from now, I think human beings would like too know what she looks like and what she is doing....................
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