Jeff Merkley actually said...

"I think this particular provision would throw things out of balance."

"it's the argument that he made and he made it publicly."

"the President has not laid out a strategy for reuniting the more than 2300 kids who have been separated from their parents and he is replacing one policy for future families."

"What the President is proposing is equivalent of internment camps during World War II we locked up Japanese, American families together."