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Deportation Deadline: Trump Hit Pause to Work with Dems, Here's What Congress Is Doing

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- President Trump is givingCongress two weeks to negotiate

fixes to asylum and immigration loopholes

or he says: "big deportation begins."

- We're doing a fantasticjob under the circumstances.

The Democrats aren't evenapproving giving us money.

Where is the money?

You know what?

The Democrats are holdingup the humanitarian aid.

- [Abigail] Just hours beforethe expected immigration rates

were set to the begin thePresident announced via Twitter

he was delaying the deportations

at the request of Democrats.

- If the Democrats wouldchange the asylum laws

and the loopholes which they refuse to do

because they think it's good politics,

everything would be solved immediately.

- [Abigail] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

tweeted back: thedelay is welcome.

- This felt worse than jails.

- [Abigail] I an interviewwith ABC News Dr. Dolly Sevier

described witnessingdetained children held

in inhumane conditionsakin to torture facilities

with a complete lack of basic sanitation.

- The conditions at thesefacilities are placing them

at increased risk forinfection, disease, and death.

- [Abigail] Sevier was allowedto visit the Ursula facility

in McAllen, Texas afterfive infants were sent

to intensive carefollowing a flu outbreak.

- We can't even get them togive the humanitarian dollars

that the President has asked;

in a humanitarian disaster on the border.

- [Abigail] House Republicanshave tried nearly 20 times

to pass a bill that addresses humanitarian

and security concernsat the southern border.

There's hope for a bi-partisanagreement in the Senate

with the AppropriationsCommittee approving

a 4.6 billion dollaraid package last week.

- I think it is so urgentthat we treat people with

basic dignity in our countryregardless of their status.

We need to make surefrom a humanitarian basis

that they have basic nutrition,

that they have basic health care,

and so I do support thebi-partisan agreement.

- [Abigail] While HouseRepublicans say they're pleased

Democrats are finally acknowledging

at least one crisis at the border.

- I'd like to see it all together

but you know what if mychoice on the minority side

is to vote up or down on a compassionate,

humanitarian packagethat's what I'm gonna do.

- They also want more funds for ICE,

Border Patrol agents,and immigration judges.

The House and Senate haveuntil the end of June

to pass a humanitarian fundingbill or the administration

warns agencies will run out

of money to pay for current aid programs.

That means that the situationat the southern border

will become even more dire.

Reporting from Capitol Hill,Abigail Robertson, CBN News.

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