WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd August, 2018) A new amendment to be proposed in the US Congress would hold President Donald Trumps administration accountable for the forcible separation of hundreds of migrant children from their parents, Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich said in a press release.
"[The two senators] announced that they are proposing amendments to the Fiscal Year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and education Appropriations Bill to hold the Trump administration accountable for its family separation policy," the release said on Wednesday.
The bill would require the US Health and Human Services Department to make information on the number and status of migrant children separated at the Mexico border that are now in government care publicly available on its website, the release added.
The amendment will also call on the administration to improve the quality of care for migrant children in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), according to the release.
"Nearly a month after the court-ordered deadline to reunite families - and at least 10 months after the administration first began separating children from their families at the border - President Trump and his administration have utterly failed to correct this inhumane debacle," Udall said in the release.
The Trump administrations zero-tolerance policy has torn apart families and caused unconscionable harm to separated children, many of whom were still being held in an environment that was ripe for exploitation, Udall said.
According to court documents filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), more than 565 children who were separated from their parents remain under Federal supervision, the release said.
