Republicans from former first lady Laura Bush to Ohio Gov. John...

Republicans from former first lady Laura Bush to Ohio Gov. John Kasich have called for the Trump administration to halt family separation at the border

“The whole thing is a hot mess,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who opposes splitting up families at the border but otherwise supports the administration’s stepped-up enforcement policies.

“It’s something, as a dad, that bothers me. It’s something that bothers a lot of people,” said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers of Ohio. “I’m sure on its own, if you ask people, it probably doesn’t look good.”

“It’s a tragedy, what is going on. And it is not helpful to the president achieving his goals on immigration reform,” added Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). “It’s not helpful in any way.”

Hugh Hewitt, a leading conservative media voice, raised the prospect that the family separation crisis could become “the Republicans’ new Katrina and the president’s new Katrina” in an interview with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Monday.
“Yes. I suppose it could. … Clearly, the country is focused on this. Clearly, it’s a horrendous situation if a small child is being taken away from the child’s actual mother,” Toomey responded. “We’ve got to solve this problem.”


Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), said that while Congress can change the law, “the White House can fix it if they want to.”

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), a moderate from a South Florida swing district, said Monday that he is trying to add more provisions to the bill to “keep families together.” “The goals of keeping children with their parents and enforcing our immigration laws are not mutually exclusive,” he said.

Rep. Mario Diaz Balart (R-Fla.) called it “totally unacceptable” and said the administration should examine “any and every other option.”

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said “taking children away from their mommies isn’t going to stop terrorists or drugs from coming into our country.”

Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is running for the Senate, said he does “not favor separating families.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/18/republicans-splitting-families-midterms-border-652369

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Not even Bill O’Reilly is standing with Trump on this (and you could hardly call old Bill a snowflake lefty or a Never-Trumper.)


The government should know how bad this looks and how innocent children are actually suffering. That kind of scenario is unacceptable to most Americans as exemplified by former First Lady Laura Bush’s withering criticism.
Bill O'Reilly (@BillOReilly) June 18, 2018


The Trump administration will not win on this one and it should reverse course today.
— Bill O'Reilly (@BillOReilly) June 18, 2018

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