Federal - S 3036
Keep Families Together Act
Introduced
June 7, 2018
Description
A bill to limit the separation of families at or near ports of entry.
Our Position
Support
Original Sponsor 1
Co-Sponsors 48
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
- Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE)
- Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)
- Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
- Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Vice President Kamala Harris (D)
- Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
- Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
- Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
- Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL)
- Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
- Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
- Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA)
- Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
- Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
- Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
- Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
- Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
- Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
- Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM)
- Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Latest Actions See More/Less
June 18, 2018 — Additional cosponsor(s): 9
Brown, S. (D-Ohio) Heitkamp, (D-N.D.) McCaskill, (D-Mo.) Cardin, (D-Md.) Jones, (D-Ala.) Stabenow, (D-Mich.) Donnelly, (D-Ind.) Manchin (D-W.Va.) Tester, (D-Mont.) June 14, 2018 — Additional cosponsor(s): 2
Coons, (D-Del.) Peters, G. (D-Mich.) June 13, 2018 — Additional cosponsor(s): 3
Duckworth, (D-Ill.) Hassan, (D-N.H.) Smith, (D-Minn.) June 11, 2018 — Additional cosponsor(s): 3
Cantwell, (D-Wash.) Van Hollen, (D-Md.) Whitehouse, (D-R.I.) June 7, 2018 — Original cosponsor(s): 31
Baldwin, (D-Wis.) Hirono, (D-Hawaii) Reed, J. (D-R.I.) Bennet, (D-Colo.) Kaine, (D-Va.) Sanders, (I-Vt.) Blumenthal, (D-Conn.) King, A. (I-Maine) Schatz, (D-Hawaii) Booker, (D-N.J.) Klobuchar, (D-Minn.) Schumer, (D-N.Y.) Carper, (D-Del.) Leahy, (D-Vt.) Shaheen, (D-N.H.) Casey, (D-Pa.) Markey, (D-Mass.) Udall, (D-N.M.) Cortez Masto, (D-Nev.) Menendez, (D-N.J.) Warner, (D-Va.) Durbin, (D-Ill.) Merkley, (D-Ore.) Warren, (D-Mass.) Gillibrand, (D-N.Y.) Murphy, C. (D-Conn.) Wyden, (D-Ore.) Harris, K. (D-Calif.) Murray, (D-Wash.) Heinrich, (D-N.M.) Nelson, (D-Fla.) June 7, 2018 — Read twice and referred to: Senate Judiciary.Congressional Record p. S3293
Commentary
As Unitarian Universalists we are called to uphold the worth and dignity of all. There is nothing that stands against those values more clearly than ripping children from their parents and sequestering them in cages in abandoned Wal-Marts or tent cities.
This heartbreaking process has taken nearly 2,000 children from their parents and the trauma will certainly last a lifetime. It is time for direct action, for awareness-raising, for witness, for solidarity. One of the many actions we can take is advocating for this legislation.