The subcommittee on Border Security facilitation and operations will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on assessing the adequacy of dhs efforts to prevent child deaths in custody. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. The chair asks unanimous consent that representative underwood be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. The chair asks unanimous consent that represent garcia would be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. Without objection, so ordered. Jacqueline call mckean, 7 years old. Phillipe gomez alonso, 8 years old. Darlene krista bell cordova, 10 years old. Wanda leone gutierrez, 16 years old. Wilmer ramirez vasquez, 2 years old. Carlos hernandez vasquez, 16 years old. These six children died in the custody of the United States government just in the past 18 months. These children were migrants from Central America who died of preventible conditions that went untreated. And
The Bureau of Land Management has 40,000 acres of unused grazing land in Eastern Washington, representing a loss to ranchers and the public, state Sen. Mark Schoesler said.