Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Wednesday distanced herself from President Trump’s zero tolerance policy on illegal border crossings resulting in family separations.

Blackburn, the presumptive Republican nominee for Senate in Tennessee this fall and a conservative favorite, called on the Trump administration to halt the separating migrant children from illegal immigrant parents or guardians while Congress works on legislation to close loopholes in U.S. asylum laws.

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