House GOP Immigration Bill Would Modify — But Not End — Child Detentions

Updated at 7:20 p.m. ET

House Republican leaders are reworking their “compromise” immigration bill to include a provision that modifies — but doesn’t completely end — the “zero tolerance” policy being enforced now by the Trump administration.

In the new legislation, children would now be held in the same place as their parents if they are detained. Under the White House’s policy, roughly 2,000 children have been separated from their parents after crossing the Southwest border illegally in the past six weeks.