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Congressional Group Tours Westchester Facility Housing Migrant Children Congressional Group Tours Westchester Facility Housing Migrant Children
Congressional Group Tours Westchester Facility Housing Migrant Children Elected officials in Westchester took a tour of one of the four facilities in the county housing immigrant children who have been separated from their families as part of President Donald Trump administration’s recently rescinded policy regarding issues at the Mexican border. Members of Congress, including Rep. Eliot Engel, Gregory Meeks, Nita Lowey, Grace Meng and Blunt Rochester were on hand for a tour of Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, which is the home to more than 300 migrant children who have been separated from their families. Following her tour of Children’s Village, Lowey issued…
Westchester Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents Westchester Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents
Westchester Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents Members of Abbott House in Westchester, which is housing migrant children that were separated from their families from the Mexican border amid the recently rescinded Trump administration “zero tolerance” policy, are working to reunite the separated parties in their care. Last week, elected officials in Irvington, led by Mayor Brian Smith, issued a joint statement on Friday on the migrant kids who are being housed at Abbott House off Route 9 (Broadway) in the village in Greenburgh as President Donald Trump continues to vacillate on his administration’s immigration policies. “The Irvington Bo…
Mayor In Westchester Blasts Trump Over Child Separation At The Border Mayor In Westchester Blasts Trump Over Child Separation At The Border
Mayor In Westchester Blasts Trump Over Child Separation At The Border In the wake of President Donald Trump’s apparent about-face involving the separation of parents and children at the border, an elected official in Westchester took the Commander-in-Chief to task. In a blog post released on Thursday, New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson lambasted Trump, calling the Executive Order signed by the president “a forced response to overwhelming public revulsion and outrage; without external pressure,” adding that “(he has) no doubt that the President and his team would be perfectly content to continue putting young children in cages.” "The separation of families i…