The mayor of Columbia, S.C., has vowed to do anything to comfort the migrant children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – even if that means he will go to jail.
Steve Benjamin (D), the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is leading a group of mayors down to the border in western Texas on Thursday, The State reported.
As of Tuesday the group of mayors had not yet been granted permission from the Department of Homeland Security to visit a detention facility in Tornillo, Texas, the newspaper reported.
Benjamin told the publication that the mayors are determined to get inside the facility. Several members of Congress were denied entry to a detention facility in South Florida earlier this week.
The mayor of Columbia, S.C., has vowed to do anything to comfort the migrant children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – even if that means he will go to jail.
Steve Benjamin (D), the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is leading a group of mayors down to the border in western Texas on Thursday, The State reported.
As of Tuesday the group of mayors had not yet been granted permission from the Department of Homeland Security to visit a detention facility in Tornillo, Texas, the newspaper reported.
Benjamin told the publication that the mayors are determined to get inside the facility. Several members of Congress were denied entry to a detention facility in South Florida earlier this week.
Sessions announced the administration’s zero-tolerance policy in April, saying the U.S. would prosecute illegal border crossers to the fullest extent of the law.
This policy has led to at least 2,000 children being detained separately from their parents while the adults face criminal proceedings.