Calling President Donald Trump’s executive order to end family separation “dangerous” and “disgusting,” House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a bill to end Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy and ensure that no families are separated by the government after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.  

“President Trump and his administration have implemented a heartless, cruel, and dangerous policy of separating families who arrive in the United States seeking asylum. They see children as bargaining chips, and as pawns in service of their anti-immigrant mission,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol. “The Keep Families Together Act does what this administration won’t do, by including a variety of measures to prevent children from being separated from their parents.”

The Keep Families Together Act (H.R. 6135) would bar Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials from separating children from their parents after they cross the border, except in extraordinary circumstances including when parental rights have been terminated. The bill—after Americans and the international community were outraged to hear a staffer at a children’s detention center mocking a group of crying children this week—would also strengthen child welfare training for all Customs and Border Patrol agents, create family reunification procedures, and defer prosecution for asylum seekers.

H.R. 6135—a companion bill to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) Keep Families Together Act—has won endorsements from dozens of immigrant rights and human rights groups including the ACLU, the Latin American Working Group, the New York Immigration Coalition, Amnesty International USA, and the National Immigrant Justice Center. Advocates say the proposal would offer far more protections than those Republicans have put forward and the executive order Trump signed after bowing to international pressure.

Trump’s order does nothing to end Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ “zero tolerance” policy, which demands that parents who cross the border with their children be subject to criminal prosecution. It directs federal agencies to continue detaining children, but to keep families together in family detention centers indefinitely—potentially flouting the 1997 Flores settlement agreement which mandates that families with children can be held only for 20 days.

“Donald Trump doesn’t care about immigrant children,” CREDO campaign manager Nicole Regalado said in a statement. “Issuing an executive order to indefinitely detain families is proof of that, and we cannot accept, much less applaud, the replacement of one vile policy with another.”