Dear Friend,
The Trump administration’s cruel zero-tolerance policy has resulted in more than 2,500 children being forcibly separated from their parents. The trauma of this experience will affect these children and families for years to come.
It should be obvious to all of us how wrong it is to rip innocent children away from their parents and put them in desert tents, windowless stores, cages, or so-called “tender age” shelters. As a mom, the plight of these children breaks my heart. As an American and the granddaughter of immigrants, it makes me furious. I know that many of you feel the same way. In June, I received more than 2,000 messages from constituents about family separation, and you overwhelmingly oppose this horrible practice. Thank you for your calls and emails please keep it up!
I’ve been doing everything I can to stop this policy and work to reunite children and parents. I wrote directly to President Trump to demand that he stop separating families. I pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Azar to end the policy of separating families and called for greater transparency on the care and conditions of children in HHS custody. And after a federal court recently ordered the government to reunite families, I called on the Trump administration to explain its plan for reuniting families that were separated at the border and to reunite them as quickly as possible. Almost 80 of my colleagues joined me in calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and HHS Secretary Alex Azar to immediately explain how they will swiftly reunite children with their families. I will keep fighting until all of the children are back with their families.

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