Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that all GOP senators support keeping families together at the border and that Republicans would reach out to\u2026<\/b>
\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that all GOP senators support keeping families together at the border and that Republicans would reach out to Democrats to try to reach a deal, NBC News reported.
The news came as Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched for ways to end the Trump administration\u2019s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, with the focus shifting to a new plan to keep children in detention longer than now permitted \u2014 but with their parents.
House GOP leaders are revising their legislation amid a public outcry over the administration\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to illegal crossings. The change would loosen rules that now limit the amount of time minors can be held to 20 days, according to a GOP source familiar with the measure. Instead, the children could be detained for extended periods \u2014 alongside their parents.
House Republicans scrambled to update their approach ahead of a visit from President Trump to discuss a broader immigration overhaul that is to be voted on this week. Trump called for Congress to approve the so-called third option Tuesday.
\u201cWe want to solve this problem,\u201d he said.
All 49 Senate Democrats have already signed on to a deal that would end the separations \u2014 and it\u2019s unclear if McConnell was looking at that measure or something different.
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