Casey blasts Trump administration over child deportation
By TED HESSON and SEUNG MIN KIM 05/03/17 03:10 PM EDT Updated 05/03/17 11:24 PM EDT
Sen. Bob Casey ripped the Trump administration on Wednesday over its immigration policies after frantically tweeting about a case of a mother and son being deported back to Honduras and urging the White House to intervene.
“This is outrageous. This is the United States of America. We send a 5-year-old back to Honduras? And they call that homeland security? That’s outrageous. Absolutely outrageous,” Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said in an interview with POLITICO. “There is no excuse for it, there’s nothing under the law that requires us to do that. They’re doing this with impunity. So we’re going to keep fighting it.”
The furious Casey, usually one of the more placid personalities in the Senate, said he reached out to both Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but that neither had returned his messages.
The Pennsylvania senator was told by Kelly’s assistant that the Homeland chief was in a meeting when he called — even though Casey requested that Kelly step out of the meeting because the matter was “urgent.”
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