'If you weren't appalled by these pictures, then something is dead or dying in your hearts and in the heart of America,' Sen. Mazie Hirono said
"When you saw the pictures of the kids at these detention facilities. When you saw the father, the little girl drowned in the Rio Grande. And if you didn't feel shame, pain. If you weren't appalled by these pictures, then something is dead or dying in your hearts and in the heart of America," Hirono said at the news conference to introduce the bill"Stop Cruelty to Migrant Children Act.
Schumer and Merkley both defended the passage of the border supplemental when questions were raised on the issue. When asked whether Schumer thinks he made a mistake in passing the bill, he said,"No. McConnell is to blame. We got as much as we could given his blocking of the rest of it, and we're going to keep fighting for it."Merkley responded to criticism that Democrats in the Senate were writing a blank check in passing the bill they did.
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