Dems and Immigration Advocates Push Back Against New Trump Plan for Migrant Families
Posted on AllSides August 22nd, 2019
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President Trump is standing by a new rule that would allow the government to detain migrant families indefinitely while their asylum claims are being processed, and critics are pushing back.
The new Department of Homeland Security policy would effectively end the practice of "catch and release" at the border, but immigration advocates and Democrats say it would cause more problems than it solves.
"Right now we have a million, more than a million plus, backlogged in terms of the immigration court," Geoffrey Hoffman with the University of Houston Immigration Law...