- Published: 17 August 2018
State Senator Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield) toured a suburban facility this week after learning the center was used to house migrant children taken from their families at the border.
While a majority of the residents are unaccompanied minors who crossed the border, the center did take in an unknown number of children separated from their families after the Trump administration ordered the prosecution of every adult who crossed the border illegally.
“Families should never be separated,” Morrison said. “And while the children I witnessed seemed well cared for, it brings no solace that there were children here without their mothers and fathers and extended families because of the actions of the Trump White House and the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.”