mo4ch:>‘For the children’: Democrats cave, pass Senate version of border bill | Mo4ch News

The Democrat-led US House has grudgingly voted to approve an emergency $4.6 billion border funding bill after the Republican-majority Senate threatened to table any amended version of the measure.“The children come first. At the end of the day, we have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said in a letter on Thursday prior to the vote, vowing to “reluctantly pass the Senate bill” lest “the children” go without aid one second longer.Also on rt.comTrump delays ICE deportation raids to see if Congress will work out solution to border crisisPelosi had initially promised not to accept the bill approved on Wednesday by the Republican-led Senate, with Democrats arguing it lacked sufficient protections for migrant children. A lengthy conversation with Vice President Mike Pence produced an administrative compromise of sorts, however: Congress will be notified within 24 hours if a child dies in custody, and no c…