On Friday, Democrats in the House and Senate called for new investigations into the Trump administration’s policy of child separations at the southern border. This came in light of newly public information in an inspector General report on the implementation of the separations, as well as a leaked draft memo outlining government intent in these policies. Republicans should stand by their colleagues and demand answers.

The Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’s report, released Thursday, revealed that the government had separated thousands more children at the border than previously acknowledged, that the separations began months before the policy was announced, and that the program was so mismanaged that “the total number of children separated from a parent or guardian by immigration authorities is unknown.”