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As a showdown looms over a border aid package in Congress, reports that a woman watched her husband and daughter drown at the Mexican border are renewing a sense of urgency around the national immigration policy debate.
The Republican-led Senate will consider its own version of a House proposal to increase funding to improve conditions at migrant detention centers next.
The bill includes more than $1 billion to shelter and feed migrants detained by the border patrol and nearly $3 billion to care for unaccompanied migrant children who are turned over the Department of Health and Human Services. It seeks to mandate improved standards of care at HHS “influx shelters” that house children waiting to be placed with sponsors such as family members in the U.S.
Both House and Senate bills ensure funding could not be shifted to Trump’s border wall and would block information on sponsors of immigrant children from being used to deport them.
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