Van Hollen Statement on Family Separation
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen
released the following statement regarding President Trump’s Family Separation
Executive Order and his continued policy of ‘Zero-Tolerance’ impacting asylum-seekers
coming to the United States:
“President Trump finally bent to public pressure to
reverse his despicable child separation policy, but his new executive order
does nothing to reunite the children who have already been taken from their
parents and appears to subject children to indefinite imprisonment – that is
unacceptable. There are better ways to manage this process that allow families
to stay together, keep kids out of jail, preserve opportunities for asylum, and enforce our laws.”