Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are calling for the Trump administration to end its policy of involuntary separation of children from their migrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. The two U.S. senators were in Providence on Monday to announce new legislation that would keep asylum-seeking families together and prevent the Department of Homeland Security from taking children from their parents at the border, the Keep Families Together Act. Reed called the administration's policy of systematic separation deliberately cruel, and Whitehouse called it un-American.