ROSEN TAKES TO THE HOUSE FLOOR, URGES MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER ACT

*Watch Rep. Rosen’s Floor Speech here*

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Congresswoman Jacky Rosen (NV-03) spoke on the House floor against the Trump Administration’s family separation policy and voiced her support for the Keep Families Together Act, a new bill she became an original co-sponsor of today.

Read text of the Congresswoman’s speech as prepared for delivery:

Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the House for one minute.

The images we’re seeing of children crying alone, calling out for their mothers and fathers. It is absolutely heart-wrenching.

Right now, innocent children are being detained at the border and they are going through unthinkable and life-altering trauma as a result of the Trump Administration’s cruel decision to separate migrant families.

Let me be crystal clear: there is no law requiring border agents to separate migrant children from their parents. Yet this Administration has chosen to implement this horrendous policy and deliberately ignore public outcry by refusing to put a stop to this madness.

They are playing political games instead of doing what’s right and true to our American values.

This heartless and inhumane behavior should not have to require action from Congress to be changed. But with the President pledging to continue his heartless policy, we are compelled to act.  

That is why I am helping introduce legislation that puts an end to this despicable policy and keeps families together, which I urge all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support.

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