One of the first things Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to do if elected president is 'shut down the child detention centers across the country.'
Since the full extent of the desperate conditions that migrant children and adults held in U.S. detention facilities face came to the fore, Democratic 2020 presidential candidates have been swift in condemning the Trump administration for allowing what many have called a"human rights crisis" to unfold at the southern border.
Here is a look at some of the leading candidates who have vowed to bring migrant detention to an end completely and those who want to reform the current practice of detaining those seeking to enter the U.S.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has said that his first executive order as president would be to shut down private detention facilities in the U.S.
"We need significant reform in both criminal justice and in immigration, to end mass incarceration and all of the unnecessary, cruel, and punitive forms of immigration detention that have taken root in the Trump Administration," Warren wrote. "I have to just say that we have to think about this issue in terms of real people. A mother who pays a coyote to transport their child though their country of origin through the entire country of Mexico facing unknown peril to come here, why would that mother do that? I will tell you," she continued."Because she has decided for that child to remain where they are is worse. But what does Donald Trump do? He says, 'go back to where you came from.
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