WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) led a bicameral effort to establish strong federal safeguards for unaccompanied and accompanied children throughout every stage of our immigration system.
The Children's Safe Welcome Act responds to the Trump Administration's escalating attacks on vulnerable migrant children, including ramping up cruel family separations (https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-family-separation-ice-71a610d15af5207a68f989fcafb55039) and deportations of unaccompanied minors (https://www.propublica.org/article/unaccompanied-minors-deportations-elder-chavez). The bill strengthens compr...