THREAD: Today, I conducted site visits to facilities along the Texas border to assess the current state of President Trump’s cruel family separation crisis and efforts to reunite innocent children with their parents. Here’s what I saw:pic.twitter.com/6WVVBG8iTo
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The American people should not be fooled — families continue to be separated.
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We met a grandmother today who was crying inconsolably because she was separated from her granddaughter and did not know where she was. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings are being torn from young children, who are still being kept in cages.
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What is most shocking of all is that all this trauma was purposefully caused by one man’s decision to use children as hostages in order to force Congress to advance his extreme immigration policies. These are not the values upon which our country was founded.
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President Trump has already failed to meet the court-ordered deadline to reunite children with their families, and what I saw today suggests we are still far from resolving this stain on American history.
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Congress must address this humanitarian crisis and move forward with an immigration policy that actually reflects our values as a nation. The very soul of America depends on it.
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