House Minority Whip Dick Durbin said Thursday he is appealing to the International Red Cross to look at the detention facilities being used by the American government for migrants presenting themselves at the Mexico-United States border.
"We must enforce the law, of course, but when it comes down to it, we, at the end of the day cannot engage in inhumane conduct, which we cannot account for in the future," the Illinois Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
The border situation has become "truly a humanitarian crisis," said Durbin. "I think the detainees who are being held at the border now are in danger and even life-threatening circumstances and I've seen it firsthand."
Durbin said discussions about immigration over the past two years with the Trump administration has been a "total frustration," while commenting on President Donald Trump's upcoming new merit-based immigration plan, planned for release later in the day.
"We reached the point in the U.S. Senate last year, where we had a bipartisan majority in the Senate ready to move forward on immigration," said Durbin. "President Trump killed it. Every time we have tried to respond to the crisis in immigration he's really played to his base and made the situation worse."
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