Gillibrand, Senate Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Require Alternatives to Detention for Asylum Seekers, Migrant Children, Families Entering Country
June 21, 2019
June 21, 2019
WASHINGTON, June 21 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, issued the following news release:
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), along with U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), announced the Alternatives to Detention Act of 2019, legislation that would take important first steps toward reforming the nation's detention-based immigration system. With unprecedented levels of immigrants being detained around the count . . .
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), along with U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), announced the Alternatives to Detention Act of 2019, legislation that would take important first steps toward reforming the nation's detention-based immigration system. With unprecedented levels of immigrants being detained around the count . . .