Next Immigration Services director testifies on supporting critically ill children and their families. At a House Oversight subcommittee hearing he talked about his decision to stop processing deferred action earlier this year. Good morning everyone, thank you for letting us today. The subcommittee will come to order without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as
Without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as a hearing in direct pursuit of the policy objective that was close to his heart that threatened deportation of six children with such an outrage that is very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to work out. On wednesday in the waning hours of his life through all of hi
Thank you all for swrojoining u today. The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The decision to deport children with critical illnesses, a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement then turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears that this policy has thankfully been reversed. They rose up in an outcry at the cold humanity on display. Im going to treat this hearing not only as an honor to Elijah Cummings, but as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective that was close to his heart. The threatened deportation of Sick Children was such an outrage the to chairman cummings that his last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to his account.
To the bottom get of the campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears this policy has thankfully been reversed after congress and the American People outcry at the cold inhumanity on display in this policy. I am going to treat this hearing is not only an honor of the memory of our late beloved chairman, elijah cummings, but as a hearing indirect pursuit of a policy directive that was close to his heart, the threatened deportation of Sick Children that his very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to account. On wednesday, in the waning hours of his life through all pain and difficulty, chairman cummings recognized the stain this policy would leave on our nation, and he made holding the government accountable his final official act. And we now have a sacred obligation to follow through on his subpoenas to make sure that we defend some of the most Vulnerable People on the planet, Sick Children who have come as s
The administrations decision to support children with Critical Illness is a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee that i will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears this policy has thankfully been reversed after congress and the American People rose up in an outcry with full inhumanity on display in this policy. Im going to treat this hearing is not only an honor in the memory of her late beloved chairman Elijah Cummings but as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective that was close to his heart that threatened deportation of Sick Children was that such outreach chairman cummings that his last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to account. On wednesday in the waning