Ever Castillo, left, and his family, immigrants from Honduras, are escorted back across the border by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Hildalgo, Texas.

Ever Castillo, left, and his family, immigrants from Honduras, are escorted back across the border by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Hildalgo, Texas.

On this edition of Political Rewind, President Donald Trump may have signed an order keeping immigrant families arrested at the border together, but it’s his comments this morning about pending immigration legislation that some say just threw GOP members of Congress under the bus. 

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms clamps down on holding ICE detainees in the city jail, and immediately draws the ire of both Republican candidates for governor.  Speaking of Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp, will their loyalty for our president cost one of them in their battle with Democrat Stacey Abrams come November? And, you don’t see Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson get angry very often, but it’s happened.

 

Panelists:

Former Georgia Representative Buddy Darden

AJC Lead Political Writer Jim Galloway

PeachPod: A Georgia Politics Podcast Co-Founder and Host Kyle Hayes

Republican Insider Loretta Lepore

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