Campaign Action
Child stealer Donald Trump's cruel executive order, touted by the administration as ending family separation while doing no such thing, isn't cutting the mustard with Democrats. Not when the families will remain separated and the administration has announced it has no intention of reuniting them.
Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer have written to Trump demanding that the administration reunite the families. "It seems that the administration lacks a plan, intention and a sense of urgency to begin reuniting these children—many of whom have suffered serious emotional anguish—with their parents," they write.
The administration has the authority and the resources to immediately begin the process of family reunification. Any delay in doing so is simply unacceptable. We request that the administration present its plan to Congress and the country as soon as possible, and immediately begin steps to implement it.
Such a plan must include:
- Steps to fully undo the "zero tolerance" policy, which has created such a crisis;
- Immediate action to reunify families; and
- When reunited, your Administration must quickly present alternatives to detention.
These alternatives, which have a proven track record, are significantly cheaper for taxpayers than the artificially-prolonged incarceration of asylum seekers that only enriches private companies in the business of running prisons.
For the sake of the children, we strongly urge you to begin this process today.
The demand will fall on deaf ears in the White House because Trump and his minions won't even recognize these families as human beings. But it's an important and necessary document. It blows a hole in the claims, mindlessly repeated by the traditional media, that Trump has somehow reversed course in his policy.