A humanitarian aid package is waiting for President Trump’s signature to get more funding and resources to the U.S. border with Mexico.
Late Thursday, the U.S. House approved a Senate Bill for 4.6 billion dollars to provide aid to migrant refugees seeking asylum in the United States. The money will help ease overcrowding and the conditions at holding facilities for migrants coming up from Central America.
Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman voted to support the bill to help ease the harsh conditions at the united states southern border.
“The border patrol chief told me that 40% to 60% of the people that are supposed to be on the border protecting all of us, trying to keep the drugs out like crystal meth and heroin, trying to deal with illegal immigration, trying deal with trafficking going on, they have been pulled off those jobs to back up and help with regards to the families to provide basic humanitarian help," said Sen. Portman. "So many of these families are arriving in really rough shape, and to start them in the processing in their asylum claim that they are making.”
President Trump tweeted congratulations following the passage of the Bill, but Brown says he could have issued an executive order to get aid more quickly, he believes that the responsibility of the situation at the border should lie on him.
“The President has blamed everybody but his own administration for splitting up families, the deaths of some of these children, that horrible picture that happened because of the lack of coherent policy," said Sen. Brown. "I don’t want the mark of this government to be that pictures of that little girl, clutching her father as he and she drowned together, because of bad mistakes and hard heartiness coming out of Washington.”
The President is expected to sign the Bill into law.
