DeGette: Trump Executive Order Suspending Family Separation Policy is Not Sufficient
Warehousing families in detention centers is no solution, must prevent this outrage from happening again
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement today about President Donald J. Trump's executive order on his new "zero-tolerance" policy that in recent weeks has resulted in more than 2000 children being separated from their parents while seeking asylum or otherwise entering the United States without documentation:
"Today we recognize and recommit to helping people fleeing persecution and war. Lately, our country has been creating a refugee crisis of our own. It's a relief that the president has just signed an executive order that will finally suspend his ‘zero-tolerance' policy of separating families who arrive at our borders without documentation, including those wo are seeking asylum from horrendous circumstances in their homelands.
"Now these families will no longer be ripped apart, but warehousing them in detention centers is no solution. Americans have placed tremendous pressure on the Trump Administration to the disgrace of family separation; we must keep it up to ensure that children are reunited with their parents in humane circumstances. And we should pass the Keep Families Together Act (H.R. 6153) to prevent such an outrage from happening again."