The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents
Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents A 4-year-old boy weeps in the arms of a family member after they were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents upon near ]sic] McAllen, Tex., last month. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set on Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents. He asked for a tour. Instead, the government contractor that runs the converted store called the cops. An officer filled out a police report, and the senator was asked to leave. The half-hour incident at a strip mall near the southern border with Mexico underscores the lack of transparency from President Trump’s administration about its intensifying efforts to break up undocumented families caught crossing the bord...