Sen. Jeff Merkley Jeffrey (Jeff) Alan MerkleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - Trump, Biden renew push for Latino support Sunday shows - Trump team defends coronavirus response Oregon senator says Trump's blame on 'forest management' for wildfires is 'just a big and devastating lie' MORE (D-Ore.) on Monday said he “fixed” a tweet President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE shared on Twitter the day before.

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In a tweet early Sunday, the president defended his administration's immigration policies, which have led to the separation of hundreds of migrant families, and said that "many are just using children for their own sinister purposes."

“Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border illegally, whether they have children or not - and many are just using children for their own sinister purposes,” Trump said in the tweet. “Congress must act on fixing the DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote ‘R.’”

Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border illegally, whether they have children or not - and many are just using children for their own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote “R” — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018

In response, the Democratic senator crossed out words in the president’s initial tweet with red lines and made several suggested additions.

Merkley shared the final version of Trump’s tweet below with the caption: “Donald Trump: fixed it for you.”

“Please understand, I am just using children for my own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the immigration laws,” the senator said in his edited version.

Merkley, who has made multiple trips in recent weeks to facilities used to house separated family members, blasted the Trump administration as “incompetent” earlier this month over migrant family separations and for failing to ensure the prompt reunification of children and their parents

The senator’s jab at the president comes days after the Trump administration failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite families it separated at the southern border.

The government reported last week that it has reunited 1,442 children ages 5 and older with their parents who were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), out of the more than 2,500 children who were separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.