Your written testimony at least there was you mentioned 700 officers you have moved. Has that had an impact on other areas, negative impact on other areas you had to move them from . We currently have 731 office of proceed operations mitchell brothers and sisters in blue that work at the ports of entry that are supporting my men and women in our efforts. Also have 325 Border Patrol agencies from the northern and coastal regions that i have pulled down on tdy and we also have a volunteer force of 342 that are helping with this crisis right now, and it is certainly pulling them away from their other duties but it is a necessity at the opinion. I desperately need their help to handle this crisis. Thank you. And my time is expired, but i want you to know im committed to not just the doling with the symptoms of this thing but wet have to address the pull that we eave all created. Not you, not your officers but this body. By our enact. I yield back. Miss wasserman shut. Thank you, madam chai
The subcommittee on immigration and citizenship will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the subcommittee at any time and we welcome everyone to this afternoon hearing on overcrowding and prolonged detention at facilities and i would not recognize myself for an opening statements. In five weeks time the dhs Inspector General has released two management alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig some of these facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed quote, the dangerous holding conditions at the El Paso Processing Center but unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues and along with vice chair and chairman after i visited the same facility just a few months ago. Even then the conditions we observed were on acceptable and women, chi
Unfortunately, they have to work harder than anyone else to have access to the same opportunities afforded to their friends and classmates in the same country that we all love. Hat is the case of aliz beth a 23yearold dreamer from my district and also from my neighborhood from Little Village in chicago. He liz beth is paying her way through college by making and selling tamales. She started helping her mother sell them on the streets of chicago. Since elementary school, she has been waking up at 3 30 in the morning to make the tamales. She will graduate from college next he year and we could say r story is a hallmark of are success. This ignores the dark reality of and her story is a pictureperfect example of america spirit and hard work and she deserves that credit. Her story is far from a feelgood story. Yet, it is another example of how our political system has failed. He liz beths success is hers along. Our government continues to fail her by maintaining an antiimmigrant policy tha
The subcommittee on immigration and citizenship will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the subcommittee at any time and we welcome everyone to this afternoon hearing on overcrowding and prolonged detention at facilities and i would not recognize myself for an opening statements. In five weeks time the dhs Inspector General has released two management alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig some of these facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed quote, the dangerous holding conditions at the El Paso Processing Center but unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues and along with vice chair and chairman after i visited the same facility just a few months ago. Even then the conditions we observed were on acceptable and women, chi
Come to order and without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the subcommittee at any time and we welcome everyone to this afternoon hearing on detention at facilities and i would not recognize myself for an opening statements. In five weeks time the dhs Inspector General has released two management alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig some of these facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed quote, the dangerous holding conditions at the El Paso Processing Center but unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues and along with vice chair and chairman after i visited the same facility just a few months ago. Even then the conditions we observed were on acceptable and women, children and families were either outside waiting to and the facility jump into ove