Children in the custody the committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of customs and Border Protection, cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. Children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. On january 4, 2019, i sent a letter to the department of Homeland Security requesting documents related to the deaths in 2018. After the department failed to produce all documents responsive to the committees request, in november 2019, the committee issued a narrowly tailored subpoena by voic
Custody, examining death, medical care procedures and improper spending. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. The committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of customs and Border Protection, cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. On january 4, 2019, i sent a letter to the department of Homeland Security requesting documents related to the deaths in 2018. After the department failed to produce all documents responsive to the committees reque
A major covid outbreak at the border. Also with us tonight, former acting general that whitaker out with an executive order to protect public monuments as american say the Democratic Leaders time to grow up. Stop allowing mob vigilante to take over americas streets. The White House Press secretary asks where to draw the line of ripping down the statues. Even a statue for gandhi was vandalized. Just go back to jesus. There is now a push to take down the statue for jesus, too. Talk about american saying the democratic seattle mayor, you grow up, too. You put people in harms way when you applauded violent protesters as patriots. Now, you, mayor, you are admitting you are wrong. The protest now shut down because the police chief and Police Officials are saying crime is on the rise. Two violent shootings leaving one person now dead. Officials reporting rapes, burglaries and crime on the rise. Telling the major hearing today with dr. Fauci on the government covid response, mad at democratic
Is a person in my position supposed to pass the test when it comes back for a substance that im allergic to and they up to my medication the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on children in cdp custody, examining death, medical care procedures and improper spending. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. The committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of ,ustoms and Border Protection cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named philippe a. Felipe last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being releas
Your perseverance and service to this nation, both the past, present and in the future too. Things arent getting a whole lot better any time soon, i fear. I would ask consent that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. As a hearing on the border we havent had one for quite a few months, so i obviously need to use a chart. Thats really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. Weve held i think close to 40 hearings on some aspect of the issues on the border and with our broken immigration system, began keeping this chart on unaccompanied children but then as the whole issue with people coming across and exploiting our asylum laws coming as families, the problem just exploded in late 2018 and into 2019, and the main reason i want to show this chart, youll see the gold colored bars are single adults, down slightly, pretty persistent, pretty stable for the, you know, eight years this chart represents. What you do see, though, in red is unaccompanied children, blue