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AUSTIN -- Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett says the Department of Homeland Security lied about having a policy to separate immigrant families. This after the KVUE defenders exposed how immigrants seeking asylum were separated despite breaking no laws when they entered the U.S. After KVUE’s story in February, members of Congress sent a letter to the Homeland Security secretary requesting the department’s policies and initiatives for separating families at the border. In response, Homeland Security claimed no such policy exists.

See where statewide elected officials and members of the Texas congressional delegation come down on the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration enforcement policy that separates immigrant kids from their parents.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, on the House floor last week compared a slate of bills targeting the opioid epidemic to the equivalent of using a garden hose to fight a wildfire. Congress is considering more than 30 bills to address what health experts have characterized as an ongoing crisis.

Overpromising and underdelivering defines the Trump administration. As your editorial correctly notes, President Donald Trump’s prescription “blueprint” stops far short of needed reforms.

4:45 p.m. update: U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett joined dozens of protesters in downtown Austin to condemn the separation of immigrant families trying to enter the United States. “It strikes me as fundamentally wrong that we literally tear babes from the arms of their mothers,” Doggett said at a rally in Republic Square Park. “This kind of separation causes permanent scars on these children.”

Austin - Protesters will rally in downtown Austin on Friday to denounce the separation of some unauthorized immigrant families by U.S. officials as they enter the United States. People from several activist coalitions will gather at 4:30 p.m. at Republic Square Park as part of the National Day of Action for Children.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Republican Chairman had our Ways & Means Tax Subcommittee hold a public relations hearing on the effect of the tax law on small businesses. But the best time to devote some attention to the impact of the tax code on small businesses would have been before this new tax law was approved, not after, when it’s too late to have any impact. Today’s hearing attempted to put the best face on legislation that was poorly written and ill conceived—legislation that was designed to provide a windfall to Wall Street Banks and other multinationals and for which small business was an afterthought.