WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) – As the story of a 17-year-old Guatemalan boy who described conditions at a US Border Patrol station in Yuma, Arizona has gone viral, a member of Congress says that things are being done to address the situation.
St. Joseph Republican Fred Upton admitted that he didn’t visit that location during a fact-finding trip to the southern border in Texas last week. “I don’t discount what this young man in Arizona said,” the House Representative said during the weekly interview on “WHTC Morning News” on Tuesday. “Because of a bipartisan effort (in Congress), we got more money to help with the border, nearly $4 billion, (in a bill) that the President signed about three or four weeks ago. (We in) the ‘Problem Solvers’ caucus (a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers that Upton co-chairs) were the ones that helped pass that money there. We are now seeing those resources reach the people that really need them, like this young man in Arizona, so hopefully, that’s a case that is pretty far between.”
One Twitter user said in response to @1450whtc, “I haven’t heard what your “problem solvers’” solution is to the immediate humanitarian crisis that we are causing by allowing CBP and ICE to violate standards of human decency.”
