Posted on 07/20/2018 6:16:02 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTONIn a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today urged the Trump Administration to reunite families torn apart by President Trumps cruel zero tolerance policy by the court-ordered deadline of July 26, 2018. Durbins speech comes one week before the deadline.
"The zero tolerance [policy] of the Trump Administration resulted in the Department of Homeland Security forcibly separating up to 3,000 children from their parents. I saw some of those kids separated by that agency. They were toddlers and infants, little babies taken from their mothers. Toddlers, children five and six years old, separated by this agency under the presidents zero tolerance policy, Durbin said. To me, it is a stain on the reputation of this nation, one that we need to quickly resolve by reuniting these children with their families as quickly as possible.
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee received a closed-door briefing from Trump Administration officials on their efforts to reunite families torn apart by President Trumps zero tolerance policy. They were informed that the government has identified at least 180 parents who have been deported without being united with their children. The Administration said some of the 180 agreed to be deported but would not say how many. The Administration also reported that some parents have waived their childrens rights to be held in a facility that has a state child-welfare license and to be released after 20 days. These families are now being held in DHS detention centers. But the Administration would not say how many families are detained and would not give the senators a copy of the waiver form the parents might have signed.
Video of Durbins remarks on the Senate floor is available here.
Audio of Durbins remarks on the Senate floor is available here.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association have condemned Trumps child separation policy. The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics called it, government-sanctioned child abuse.
Three weeks ago, Durbin wrote to President Trump and called on him to immediately announce his intention to fully comply with a federal district courts order to return children separated under his Administrations zero tolerance policy to their parents within 30 days, and within 14 days for children under age five, and to regularly update Congress on his progress towards meeting the courts deadlines. Durbin has yet to receive a response to his letter.
In March, Durbin and 23 of his Senate colleagues pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Inspector General to investigate allegations that DHS is separating the children of asylum-seekers from their parents. This request followed reports of the case of a seven-year-old girl and her mother from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who were separated for more than four months after they presented themselves at the U.S. border and sought protection in accordance with the law.
Uhh, Dickie...who do you think wrote the laws on immigration? It was you and the others in power at the time. It’s only now that someone had the stones to enforce what you clowns wrote. Demand? My word...you’d think you controlled the House and the Senate!
FU Durbin
Dick is not just his name, it is a description.
Memo to Dickhead:
You have a LOT of enemies out here, maggot.
Well several hundred have been deported and left their children here .... need to airlift them immediately back to their piece of shit homeland for a joyous reunion.
Sorry Mr Cranium but whatever you have to say or demand is irrelevant. Now, GFY!
Haven’t you heard? He pronounced himself King years ago. And if I were you, I would be very careful of your next comments. Do your really want to find yourself in the Democrat Party gulag?
Is that still a thing?
Its just Little-Dick Hasbins turn to throw a tantrum ... its all the Democrat Party/Leftists have left. Kicking and screaming ... screaming and kicking ... then more kicking and screaming ... and so forth.
“Cruel zero tolerance policy” says SENATOR DURBIN who believes in PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION & PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics called it, government-sanctioned child abuse.
If mamacita hadnt hit the road with bebe in tow and sneaked over the border, there wouldnt be a problem. But, no, its all Trumps fault.
Funny thing...the opening sentence says urged the Trump Administration.
Which is it? A demand? Or just an urging. World of difference between the two.
Jafars parrot abandoned him. He is still upset.
America is being ruined by this dick
Me too. When was it.
I agree. Back where they came from.
Dick the turbine Durbin is anti-USA.
Someone should tell Dick Turban that many of those “adults” are NOT the parents!
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