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Just five months before the midterm elections, Republicans are scrambling to distance themselves from the Trump administration's widely panned "zero tolerance" immigration policy that has resulted in the separation of children from their families at the southern border.
As images of children being held in cages at detention centers near the border flash across television screens, Republicans are being pressured to take a stand on Trump's controversial policy, as the President and the administration continue to place blame on Congress for inaction on immigration legislation.
One of the strongest statements criticizing the administration came late Monday from Rep. Steve Stivers, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP's campaign arm. In a sign of just how damaging Republicans
believe this issue can be in the fall, Stivers said he was writing a letter "to understand the current policies and to ask the Administration to stop needlessly separating children from their parents."
The Trump administration is facing wave of criticism from popular GOP figures over its separation of families. Former first lady Laura Bush wrote that the family separation policy is "cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart." Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, the nation's most popular governor, revoked his offer to send National Guard help to the southern border because "the federal government's current actions are resulting in the inhumane treatment of children."Trump's former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called it "an atrocious policy" on CNN Monday. "It's inhumane. It's offensive to the average American," he said.
