Reuters / Yahoo News: House Democrats urge pause in migrant family deportations (Historically speaking, America has not welcomed in refugees simply because they face violence back home, because, for one thing, hundreds of millions of refugees could arrive here next Tuesday.)

House Democrats urge pause in migrant family deportations

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives has called on President Barack Obama to suspend deportations of Central American families until problems are resolved at the newly opened detention facilities holding women and children.

The 32 House Democrats, led by Representatives Zoe Lofgren of California and John Conyers of Michigan, wrote Obama on Monday to voice concerns about the legal process at the detention centers and the conditions in those centers.

"We believe it is critical that no detained families be removed (deported) until we can ensure that we are not returning such families to face persecution and torture abroad," the letter said. ...

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