Lawmakers Promote Bill to Reunite Separated Families and Prevent Future Separations
Washington, DC– Today, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, along with Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) and Senators Richard Blumenthal (CT-D), Jeff Merkley (OR-D), Mazie Hirono (HI-D), and Edward Markey (MA-D) introduced the bicameral Family Reunification Task Force Act. The legislation authorizes the Family Reunification Task Force to continue its work to reunite the thousands of families torn apart by Trump’s Zero Tolerance policy that inhumanely separated children from their parents.
Endorsers include Kids in Need of Defense, National Immigration Law Center, Human Rights First, Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Human Rights Watch, Justice in Motion, Prevention Institute, Women’s Refugee Commission, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Amnesty International USA, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Save the Children, Acacia Center for Justice, National Immigrant Justice Center, Immigrant Defenders Law Center (“ImmDef”), Latin America Working Group, National Center for Youth Law, National Immigration Project, Latin America Working Group, Tahirih Justice Center, Refugees International, ASISTA Immigration Assistance, and American Immigration Council.