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President Trump's Corrective Order

Floor Speech

Date: June 28, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Immigration Family

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Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, Donald Trump's ``corrective'' order no longer separating children from parents takes families out of the fire of separation and throws them into the inferno of unlimited detention on military bases. Thus Trump's zero tolerance policy stands, costing the government untold millions required to be spent for meals, air conditioning, libraries, private showers, medical, dental, and mental health.

There are no good options when families enter the country seeking asylum, but herding them together in internment camps is the worst of those available.

That is why past administrations have released the detainees with ankle bracelets and frequent contacts, with the overwhelming majority of detainees reporting back. The courts are likely to order a similar remedy.

It is time for the administration to look at practices that have worked instead of inventing inhumane ones that don't.

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