Booker: Trump’s ‘Doing Permanent Damage To Children’ with Detention Facilities

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BOOKER: “Part of the plan is actually a focus on those northern triangle countries. Appoint a special envoy to work with our regional partners o start doing the opposite of what Donald Trump is doing. He is literally pulling back resources from those countries. We need to not only lean in, but we need to work with our area partners to stop the root cause that’s pushing people to come to the northern border. Remember, this is a crisis that Donald Trump has created through executive action, not through the things that Congress has done. He started and created a crisis of executive action. I will end it with executive action, doing things that reflect our values. Right now, as we speak, there are expecting mothers, nursing moms, elderly folks, vulnerable populations being held in detention unnecessarily, doing permanent damage to children. Literally Donald Trump’s own administration reports are talking about the permanent damage they’re doing to kids. And this is not about our safety. We have had lots of examples of lower cost things that we can do that have more effective means with which dealing with immigration and that don’t violate our values and permanently harm vulnerable populations. We can do this. We have the capacity.”