mark he is per s nomination. yesterday members of the house oversight kme. including alexandria ocasio-cortes and the chair of the committee luge cummings questioned the acting homeland security chairman kevin! leanen. on everything from immigration policy to child separation policy are you aware of propuka report indicating about 10,000 current and former cbp officers in the inlt violently racist group. i am aware of the arm. did you see the posts in the report? i did. did you see the posts mocking mierg deaths. yes. did you see the threats to myself and congresswoman escobar. i did and demanded a investigation. did you see officers
woof. senator warren released a statement today saying she will be opposing mark esper s number nation. then just yesterday, members of the house oversight committee, including alexandria ocasio-cortez and the chair of that committee, congressman elijah cummings questioned the acting homeland secretary, kevin mcaleenan on everything from immigration to child separation policy. are you aware of the propublica report indicating that there were about 10,000 potential current and former cbp officers in the violently racist and sexist facebook group? i am aware of the propublica article, yes. did you see any of the posts in the report? i did. did you see the posts mocking migrant children s deaths? i did. did you see the posts planning physical harm to myself and congresswoman escobar? yes, and i directed an investigation within minutes of reading the article. did you see the images of
as i can. frankly, the most distinct honor i have is the ability to represent the 60,000 men and women of this agency, border patrol agents, our cbp officers, plain clothes employees that every day not only exemplify the professionalism that we expect of ourselves but go above and beyond the call of duty particularly as they have been in this border crisis. neil: so obviously you re not looking to resign. has anybody said this doesn t look good? what is happening in a couple of these facilities while hardly typical is hardly something to ignore. you say? well, what i will share with you is the same we ve been sharing for the last 18 months plus, neil. we ve been sounding these alarm bells. we ve been the ones that have been inviting the congressional delegations and their staffers down. we ve been the ones up on capitol hill through congressional testimony, we ve been the ones out here with yourself and your colleagues
days. they said that they had been separated from their children. there was a point where one of the women who was cuban, she spoke some english, and in front of all of us, many of the legislators and also several cbp officers, she challenged them very directly and said they were not telling the truth about the standard of care and the treatment, and she said that some of the agents had used derogatory words, language against the women. we saw a little boy, he must have been 4 years old, they locked up the kids at clint so that members of congress could not talk to them. and so they locked these kids up, this little boy saw us, he ran up to the plek si glaglass, hands up as if he wanted to touch us and you can tell by his mouth, he was asking for his dad. it s just heartbreaking. those are members of congress giving eyewitness accounts of what they saw. nancy pelosi, after hearing the inspector general s report yesterday said the report provides a shocking window into
they said, no. it doesn t make any sense. they re trying to keep everything secret. so they are, of course, pushing back on some of the claims you have heard from these women that you show in your video and from others that you spoke to. do you have any reason not to believe what these migrant detainees told you? i don t. they spoke sincerely. there was a point where one of the women who was cuban, she spoke some english. and in front of all of us, many of the legislators and also several cbp officers, she challenged them very directly and said that they were not telling the truth about the standard of care and the treatment. and she said that some of the agents had used derogatory words, language against the women. now i m not saying that she said that all of the agents did that. but she said that it sounded to me like a few of them had. so she very directly challenged them in front of all of us. and that s one of the reasons