Why Can’t Congress Do More to Protect Migrant Children?

Our lawmakers are too busy, too divided, and too slow to get anything done on the border

Jennifer Victor
GEN
Published in
5 min readJun 20, 2019

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There’s a human rights atrocity happening along the United States’ southern border, and Congress continues to do practically nothing in response. Why?

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Jennifer Victor
GEN
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Associate professor political science, Schar School Policy and Government, George Mason Univ.; Congress, parties, campaign finance, networks. Blogger @MisofFact