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
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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

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