McConnell backs bill to keep immigrant families together
By Alexander Bolton - 06/19/18 02:30 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday announced his support for a bill to keep immigrant families detained at the border together.
“I support, and all of the senators of the Republican conference support, a plan that keeps families together,†McConnell told reporters.
Republican lawmakers are scrambling to avert a public relations disaster as backlash grows in response to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration, which has seen thousands of children separated from their parents after their parents were detained over the past several weeks.
“We need to fix the problem and it requires a legislative solution,†McConnell added, dismissing a claim from Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) that President Trump could address the crisis without going through Congress.
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