WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released a statement on Wednesday after President Trump temporarily reversed his administration’s decision to separate families at the United States-Mexico border. While it reportedly ceases the practice of separating families, the order maintains the administration’s policy of detaining and referring for prosecution every person caught crossing the border, including those legally seeking asylum. 

“Locking up little kids in cages with their parents is less evil than locking up little kids alone in cages, so I guess I’m glad that the president took this step. But the new practice is still inhumane and arguably illegal, so no one should be celebrating today. This week, the Trump administration reached a new moral low, and I’m just glad that millions of people all across the county haven’t lost their moral compass and raised their voices to make sure that these kids at least get reunited with their parents,” said Murphy.

Murphy is a cosponsor of the Keep Families Together Act, a bill to keep immigrant families together by preventing the Department of Homeland Security from taking children from their parents at the border. Earlier this month, Murphy and 39 colleagues wrote a letter demanding the president stop further traumatizing children and end Trump’s inhumane policy of separating innocent boys and girls from families who cross the Southwest border seeking asylum in the United States.

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