Jeff Merkley actually said...

"It just re-evokes the factors that we saw in spades with the administration down on the border, ripping children out of their parents' arms."

"The real President Trump is the one who is, has this underlying strategy of inflicting trauma on refugees, on children to discourage immigration. And that is just a dark and evil policy that we need t..."

"And there's an underlying philosophy that it's OK to treat refugees in this fashion."

"From every direction you see that the children are being treated in a horrific manner."