For those of you who were not here yesterday, my name is jayesh rathod, im the associate dean for expeer enshal its my pleasure to welcome all of you here to the law school and i offer that welcome on not only behalf of our law school, cosponsoring by ericions, led hershberg and dennis stinchcomb, as well as the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our committee representatives. Again, thank you for everyone [applause] thank you for all of the hard work that the Planning Committee has put into making this event such a success. Thanks to all of you. I know you all have very busy schedules. I appreciate your willingness to be here. For those of you who were here yesterday, we have a series of enriching panels to face the facing migrant youth, some of the factors across the world, as well as some of the ways the asylum system is being challenged here in the United States as well as how we can understand more deeply the standards which is at the heart of the gathering. Were pleased
My name is jayish, the dean and director of the immigration justice clinic here at American University Washington College of law. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you to the law school and i offer that welcome not only on behalf of the law school but on behalf of our cosponsoring institution, the American University center for latin american and latino studies led by eric herbburg and dennis stitchcom and the American Immigration Lawyers Association and our Planning Committee representatives. Again, i thank you for everyone who has been [ applause ] yes. Thank you. For all of the hard work that the planning economy has put in to making this event such a success. Thanks to all of you. I know you have very busy schedules so i appreciate your willingness to be here. For those of you who were here, yesterday we had a series of enriching panels beginning to unpack some of the challenges facing migrant youths, some of the factors across the world as well as some of the ways in which the asy
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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.
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