Jeff Merkley actually said...

"The administration is conducting its immigration policy and strategy that traumatizes children without careful planning and perhaps with a lot of callousness perhaps incompetence and possibly both."

"Can you imagine the terror you have as a child? Your parents are suddenly gone and you don't have a place to go home to? What does it mean for your life?"

"But the President is not trying to fix it he is trying to aggravate it for political purposes. He is using children as political pawns and that's wrong."

"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."