Two refugee girls sleep in a holding cell, as the children are separated by age group and gender, as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Senate Democrats are preparing a $2.5 to $2.7 billion funding package to address the humanitarian crisis on the southern border, where thousands of unaccompanied minors have fled brutal violence in their home countries to seek a safe place to live. That's about $1 billion less than requested by the Obama administration, but $1 billion more than House Republicans, who also want to amend a 2008 law that they feel makes it harder to deport the refugee children.
According to Rep. Kay Granger, who is responsible for drafting the House GOP plan, the legislation will ensure that we...
...send the children back as quick as we can.
According to Granger, the president simply wants more money so that he can let the refugees stay in the country, but really, nobody in a position of power is talking about the
moral dimensions of sending children back into war zones. Instead, it's just a debate about condemning these kids to the violence from which they fled.