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(19 Jun 2018) Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families over a six-week period in April and May after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the new "zero-tolerance" policy that refers all cases of illegal entry for criminal prosecution. Prior procedure had limited prosecution for many family entrants, in part because regulations prohibit detaining children with their parents since the children are not charged with a crime and the parents are.
Texas Congressman and Democrat, Filemon Vela, who represents a district encompassing Brownsville, Texas invited fellow congressional Democrats to visit facilities where immigrant children separated from their parents. This happens after a parent has been charged with unlawful entry into the US and is subject to deportation proceedings. Some of the US representatives who visited child holding facilities operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, say they held and played with infants and toddlers. Rep. Joaquin Castro and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, both Texas Democrats, say they held one baby boy who was no more than eight months old and had been in the facility for almost two months. Rep. Castro says the facility workers told him the boy named, Roger, came with his sister and that his mother had died.

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