Pelosi and Schumer won't sign on for indefinite detention of families in Der Fuhrer's new internment camps

Democrats reject GOP’s narrow fix to Trump’s family separation policy

At the Capitol, both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that they could not endorse a GOP plan to change existing law to allow families to be held together indefinitely in custody, extending a 20-day limit on child detentions established under a 1997 court settlement in what is known as the Flores case.

“Everybody in our caucus understands that the Flores decision is not improved by extending the length of time, it is weakened,” Pelosi said. 

“It is a bad bill; it is a cynical attempt on the part of Republicans, once again.”

Schumer said it remains up to Trump, not Congress, to reverse the “zero tolerance” enforcement policy that has prompted the practice of separating migrant children from their parents.