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Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin
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Today I visited a shelter in Chicago housing immigrant children who have been separated from their parents because of the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance policy. This heartbreaking situation has only been further complicated by Trump’s Executive Order.
While visiting these children, I delivered handwritten letters and cards from Chicago-area kids and families to show them they are not alone. It was a small gesture that meant a lot to these kids who have been through so much. #cardsforkids
I encourage kids across the country to show children who’ve been separated from their parents that we're thinking of them & we care. Send your cards to:

UAC/ORR Program
ATTN: Cards for Kids
330 C Street, SW
5th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20201

RT to spread the word #cardsforkids
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It is an honor to welcome three talented new Representatives from IL as they are sworn-in as members of Congress in Washington: Reps. Garcia, Casten, and Underwood. In particular, Rep. Underwood’s arrival is historic as she is the youngest African American woman ever in Congress.
Rep. Underwood's career in nursing & experience with the Obama Admin prepared her for her new policy role in the House. Rep. Garcia brings a wealth of experience serving in Cook County & the General Assembly.
And Rep. Casten is a clean energy entrepreneur who brings that background to D.C. at the right moment. I look forward to working with all of them in the #116thCongress.
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Let me be clear: Dems support strong, effective border security. The type of border security that Dems have long-supported, including increased funds for tech, is what experts have said is needed & actually works. What doesn’t work is an ineffective, expensive & medieval wall.
But here’s what we should all agree on: large portions of the government shouldn’t be shut down while there’s a debate on border security.
Today, we urged the President and Republican leaders to pass the 6 other appropriations bills, which would reopen most of the government, along with a short-term bill to keep DHS funded and working while we continue to debate the path forward on border security.
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Democrats have made it clear to the President that there are much more effective ways to secure our border than a wall – like more screening technology and personnel to stop drugs from flowing through our borders. Democrats support smart border security that works.
For example, the DEA has found that the cartels transport the bulk of their illicit goods over the Southwest border through legal ports of entry using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers.
CBP Commissioner McAleenan told me directly in October 2017 that his top priority to secure the border was more drive-through inspection systems, known as Z-portals. He didn’t mention a border wall.
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1/ A 12-year-old Guatemalan boy named Erik went home this week after four months inside an Illinois shelter for immigrant children. We wrote about him and other kids separated from their parents. Here’s what happened when he was reunited with his family. propublica.org/article/trump-…
2/ Erik’s mother, father, aunt and grandmother were waiting at the airport in Guatemala City. “I thought I’d never see my mother and father again,” he told @latimes reporter @thecindycarcamo, who documented the reunion. (Photo by Cindy Carcamo)
@latimes @theCindyCarcamo 3/ Erik and his dad were taken into custody after crossing into the U.S. in May. Erik was sent to Chicago and his dad was deported. The father, who can’t read, told @thecindycarmamo he thought he was signing papers that would deport them together.

latimes.com/world/la-fg-gu…
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Trump: Day 575
-148th Day at Trump Golf Club
-191st Day at Trump Property
-Spends Day Watching Fox & Friends
-McGahn Cooperating with Mueller
-WH Counsel Feared Being Set Up
-Plan Would Release Tons of CO2
-Zinke Faces 14 Ethics Investigations
-Yemen Children Killed by U.S. Bomb
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Day 680 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 532 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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We're here in Montgomery, Alabama rallying to say that #FamiliesBelongTogther & to call to #EndFamilyDetention
At the bus stop where Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Alabamians protest an injustice of our time - the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy separating families all across America. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Separating families is wrong and today in Alabama, #TheMarchContinues for immigration reform. #EndFamilyDetention
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What the fuck just happened today?

⚡️ Day 524: Bad idea.

whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/06/27/day…
1/ Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of July, giving Trump a second chance to fundamentally shift the court to the right for decades by creating a five-member conservative majority

cnbc.com/2018/06/27/ant…
1a/ Mitch McConnell promised a Senate vote on a new Supreme Court nominee by the fall

nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/…
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More context for our horrific treatment of children at the border: childhood trauma can lead to an average decrease in life expectancy of 20 years [1].

Five months: 700 separations [2]
[1] bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/…
[2] texasmonthly.com/news/inside-te…
Then in six weeks, ~2,000 separations
nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/…
From the @nytimes: "‘I Can’t Go Without My Son,’ a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala"
nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/…
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Immigrant from Honduras sobbed as she told attorney, federal authorities took her daughter as she breastfed the child in a detention center, where she was awaiting prosecution for entering the country illegally.
When the woman resisted she was handcuffed.
cnn.it/2sSzSMR
Natalia Cornelio, the attorney with Texas Civil Rights Project, recalled from her interview with the woman, who had been detained under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy to refer anyone caught crossing the border illegally for federal prosecution.
Since policy was announced in May, 500 kids been separated from their parents within last month
Parents under arrest tell public defenders they don't know what happened to their kids, were told their kids are being taken to be bathed, cleaned up & they don't see their kids again
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