SEATAC — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and a roster of fellow Democratic politicians on Saturday decried the federal government’s decision to separate young children of asylum seekers taken into custody at the U.S.-Mexico border from their parents indefinitely.
The administration is sending more than 1,600 immigrants — including some of those parents — to federal prisons amid a lack of space in other facilities.
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