[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H4859]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY OF CRUELTY

  (Mr. WELCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, the Trump administration has enacted a policy 
of stunning cruelty: cruel in its impact on innocent young children, 
cruel in its impact on terrified mothers seeking safety from violence 
and rape.
  The cruel policy: the aggressive and forceful practice of separating 
a child from her mother when that mother presents herself at our 
southern border for the sole purpose of seeking safety.
  The cruel policy, Mr. Speaker, is the Trump administration's 
decision--willful, voluntary, calculated decision--to make it a crime 
for a mother to do what mothers do everywhere and always: protect their 
children.
  Whatever challenges we face at the southern border, none will be 
solved by ripping families apart, sending a child to one place--
strange, unknown, unfamiliar--and the parents to another, neither 
knowing when, if ever, they will be reunited.
  This policy is not only cruel, it is unnecessary and ineffective. Mr. 
Speaker, the President must end this un-American cruelty now and 
forever.

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