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trev

(1,480 posts)
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 01:27 AM Jul 2019

Democratic Senator helps Mexican family cross the border

"A pregnant Mexican woman suffering complications was told by immigration officers that they couldn’t process her family’s asylum claim at the U.S. border on Saturday before a U.S. senator intervened to persuade the officers to take the woman to a Texas hospital.

While visiting a migrant shelter Saturday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) grew concerned about a woman who was 38 weeks pregnant and suffering from preeclampsia and other complications. The senator and his staff decided to take the woman, her husband and 3-year-old son to a port of entry to make their asylum claim."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/senator-intervenes-at-border-to-help-mexican-family-apply-for-asylum/ar-AAEXpK8?ocid=spartanntp

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Democratic Senator helps Mexican family cross the border (Original Post) trev Jul 2019 OP
Good for Senator Wyden Farmgirl1961 Jul 2019 #1
Great news True Blue American Jul 2019 #2
I'm across the Columbia from you. trev Jul 2019 #5
My senator! Love love love him and Merkley renate Jul 2019 #3
I love Wyden!!!!! BigmanPigman Jul 2019 #4
And he's the more conservative MurrayDelph Jul 2019 #6

Farmgirl1961

(1,493 posts)
1. Good for Senator Wyden
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 01:56 AM
Jul 2019

I am so lucky to have him and Jeff Merkley as my senators. Good people trying very hard to call out gross injustice(s).

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
2. Great news
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 02:57 AM
Jul 2019

A compassionate Senator. Why is it always a Democrat? Guess I could answer my own question. We have empathy, character and a strong code of ethics.

renate

(13,776 posts)
3. My senator! Love love love him and Merkley
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 03:11 AM
Jul 2019

Wyden is a genuinely good guy, from my experience of volunteering at a veterans’ nonprofit he visited.

Love him to bits

MurrayDelph

(5,281 posts)
6. And he's the more conservative
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 02:24 PM
Jul 2019

of our two senators.

But he's also a senator who had relatives killed in Nazi death camps, so he may be more than a little aware of the parallels.

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