Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday decried the “immoral” conditions for migrant children detained at the border, condemning it as “cruelty” that’s “part of their policy” in the Trump administration.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Schiff pushed back at President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for blaming Congress for the humanitarian crisis at the border.
“For the vice president or president to blame Congress for their own malfeasance is just completely besides the point and unethical and unacceptable,” he said. “They could cure this problem today but they don’t want to because, frankly, the cruelty is part of their policy. It’s part of what they think will deter migrants from coming here… what they think will motivate Congress to build a wall.
“And to use children this way I think is just immoral.”
Schiff said Democrats have “always been open to negotiations” to fix immigration policy and close loopholes in the law.
“There is a bipartisan package in the Senate of some emergency supplemental relief to provide some assistance” to the migrant crisis at the border,” he noted.
“But make no mistake,” Schiff said. “There is nothing that Congress is doing or not doing that compels the administration to have facilities where children don’t have blankets or toothbrushes or soap.”
A recent court hearing revealed the alarming lack of toiletries and blankets for children detained at the border, the Washington Post has reported.
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