June 19, 2018      9:52 AM
Speaker Straus asks President Trump to rescind policy causing family separations at the border
"It is wrong to use these scared, vulnerable children as a negotiating tool”; meantime Rep Villallba asks Gov. Abbott to provide for family facilities instead of separate ones
Saying
children should not be used as a "negotiating tool," Texas
House Speaker Joe Straus on
Tuesday asked President Donald Trump
to rescind his administration's policy causing family separations on the
Texas-Mexico border.
In
a letter to Trump dated today, Straus said "There is no federal law
requiring the separation of children and parents." He also cited the fact
that some of the facilities being used to house immigrants right now "have
in recent weeks requested variances to exceed their licensed capacities."
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