A second wave of lawmakers will be making the trip to tour immigrant detention facilities in Texas where children who were separated from their parents are being held.
Reps. Anthony Brown, D-Md., Filemon Vela, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, released a joint statement announcing they will be visiting the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen on Saturday to see the Ursula Border Patrol station and processing center.
According to the statement, the purpose of the three Democratic lawmaker’s “fact-finding mission” is to “better understand the impact of President Trump’s cruel and ineffective family separation and zero tolerance policies, and what needs to be done to address this manufactured humanitarian crisis.”
Republican Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn will also be visiting the border facilities on Friday.
The two are expected to hold a roundtable at the Weslaco Border Patrol Station that includes federal agency representatives involved in receiving, detaining and adjudicating immigrant families.
Several other lawmakers visited the centers this week, and many expressed outrage over the conditions, comparing the areas in which migrants were being held to animal cages.
