Asssist Law Enforcement at the border. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. It must be paid staff. I appreciate everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 3 or 4 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. I would argue they contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on Central American children and family members. Initially, we had 3000, 4000 unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. 2012 was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum
Asssist Law Enforcement at the border. This is just under two hours. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. It must be paid staff. I appreciate everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 3 or 4 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. I would argue they contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Earlier versions only focused on Central American children and family members. Initially, we had 3000, 4000 unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. 2012 was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum