Just introduced the Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act with Senators Tillis, Rubio, Johnson, Cotton, Cruz, Heller and Cornyn.
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My goal is to make sure families are not separated, but also prevent the rampant abuse of ‘catch and release’ where people are being released who never show up for their court date
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This bill prevents breaking up real families, but requires adults to show up for court.
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The legislation gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the clear legal authority to keep children under the age of 18 with their families in residential centers, and requires them to keep families together during their legal proceedings.
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Does it provide them legal assistance, information in Spanish, access to computers or phones to request needed documents from home? Time to prepare their case? Or does it just keep them together so you can say you did that before you kick them out?
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It costs $1.25/day for an ankle monitoring bracelet and 99% of refugees show up for court dates. Spending $775/day is the
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When are the kids going to be reunited with families? How many were lost? injured? abused? You and GOP and Trump admin have a LOT of questions to answer and work to do I think your little bill can wait
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what about those families who ha e been separated needful to address immediate reparations of this egregious policy of separation. we have thrown these poor souls into a nightmare and committed crimes against humanity
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In June 2017 the Trump administration cancelled the Family Case Management program, which kept families together and had a 99.6% court appearance rate. STOP THE DAMN LYING.
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