House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on Thursday bashed President Donald Trump for taking credit for ending the immigration policy which he first created.
The policy resulted in immigrant children being separated from their parents as they face criminal charges for illegally crossing the border.
“I don’t applaud the President,” Hoyer said on CNN. “He created a crisis, he says he’s solved the crisis. He has not.”
According to The Hill, Hoyer also added that Trump’s solution to stopping migrant family separations is “inhumane,” saying that incarcerating children with their families remains an immoral and un-American policy.
“The fact is he has not solved the problem,” he said.
Hoyer’s remarks come shortly after the President signed an executive order to end the practice. Trump initially defended the policy, despite growing backlash from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, saying that he didn’t want the U.S. to turn into a “migrant camp.”
Although Trump relented on Wednesday, he stated that the administration would hold firm in its so-called “zero tolerance” policy for migrants who enter the country illegally.
Meanwhile, a new bipartisan gang of four plans to meet next week to begin in-depth negotiations on a bill to solve the problem of mass detentions and child separation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
GOP Senators Thom Tillis and Ted Cruz, the original co-sponsors of a Republican measure to keep detained families together at the border, are meeting with Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin next week to lay the groundwork for a compromise.
“It’s really to bridge the gap,” Tillis said of the meeting’s purpose.
“We need to go through what-if scenarios so that we can address the legitimate concerns of two- or three-year detentions if the courts get clogged up. Those are all solvable problems,” he said.
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