House lawmakers make bipartisan demand for data on families split at border

Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding detailed information about illegal immigrant families who have been separated at the border.

The top Democrat on the committee, Rep., Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who chairs the subcommittee on government operations, wrote a joint letter to the Department of Homeland Security Thursday that asked several questions about the families, such as the age, gender, and country of origin for each child separated at the border and the locations at which they have been housed.