At Least Cops Didn't Shoot Sen. Jeff Merkley For Demanding To See Immigrant Kids Stored In Walmart
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Everybody here is just doing their job. One of them can be proud of the job he's doing. In Brownsville, Texas, yesterday, US Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon took some aides and a camera crew with him on a fact-finding mission at a closed Walmart store that's been converted into a storage facility for migrant children. He'd hoped to be let inside to see the conditions in which the Office of Refugee Resettlement holds migrant kids after they've been separated from their families at the border. But the facts he found out were that nobody from the nonprofit that houses the children (under contract with ORR) wanted to give him a statement. And they certainly weren't going to let him tour the facility -- a week before going to the site, his office had tried to arrange a tour, but nothing doing there either. Here's the video from Merkley's
At Least Cops Didn't Shoot Sen. Jeff Merkley For Demanding To See Immigrant Kids Stored In Walmart
At Least Cops Didn't Shoot Sen. Jeff Merkley…
At Least Cops Didn't Shoot Sen. Jeff Merkley For Demanding To See Immigrant Kids Stored In Walmart
Everybody here is just doing their job. One of them can be proud of the job he's doing. In Brownsville, Texas, yesterday, US Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon took some aides and a camera crew with him on a fact-finding mission at a closed Walmart store that's been converted into a storage facility for migrant children. He'd hoped to be let inside to see the conditions in which the Office of Refugee Resettlement holds migrant kids after they've been separated from their families at the border. But the facts he found out were that nobody from the nonprofit that houses the children (under contract with ORR) wanted to give him a statement. And they certainly weren't going to let him tour the facility -- a week before going to the site, his office had tried to arrange a tour, but nothing doing there either. Here's the video from Merkley's