The House Oversight Committee will subpoena three Trump administration officials for records on the government’s “zero tolerance” policy of separating migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move comes as the administration is facing fierce criticism after acknowledging that many more children may have been separated than previously known. On a bipartisan 25-to-11 vote, the panel’s members on Tuesday authorized Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) A report last month by the HHS inspector general said the Trump administration probably separated thousands more parents from their children than previously made public. The report prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to ask a federal judge this month to order the administration to account for all of the separated children.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 18:00 UTC