Welch condemns family separations on border visit

Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and other Democratic lawmakers in front of Casa Padre, a shelter for unaccompanied immigrant youth in Brownsville, Texas. Photo courtesy of Welch’s office
In a facility not far from the Mexican border in Texas, Rep. Peter Welch saw three young boys — brothers, he assumed — lying on thin mattresses under tinfoil-like Mylar blankets on Sunday.
“The three of them were holding onto each other for dear life,” the Vermont Democrat later described