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
Welcome my colleagues im proud to welcome my colleagues, but im also glad to welcome you to my alma mater, where i got started one or two years ago, involved in Voter Registration rights and do a lot of things throughout the mississippi delta. And help set the stage for activism that changed the direction of our country. The college is a fitting vid new for the meeting on the Homeland Security to examine recent immigration raids and their effect on mississippi families, children, and communities. Three months ago, u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent hundreds of agents to mississippi to arrest nearly 700 workers at seven chicken processing plants across the state. It was the largest statewide workplace raid in u. S. History with 680 Community Members arrested. Far from being public criminals, those arrested trying to provide for their families, send their children to school, and build a life free from violence, crime and poverty at home. The most troubling aspect of these rai
Come to the second panel of witnesses first the special agent in charge of the field office for u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the department of Homeland Security. Mr. Mile myles has worked with e Homeland Security investigation for over ten years and has an impressive record. Welcome. Next we have the honorable michael who currently serve as a chair of scott county mississippi. Athe Law Enforcement duties include keeping the peace within the county and in addition to serving as the counties jailer and keeping the jail and currently lives in mississippi. Serving as the mayor of canton mississippi, one of the six cities with a raid on august 7. He was elected to the office in 2017 but began working in the Public Interest in the age of 16 and h he was accompanied at the table with the superintendent of public schools, one of the districts located. Without objection, the witnesses for students will be inserted into the record and i now ask each witness to summarize it his o
Come to the second panel of witnesses first the special agent in charge of the field office for u. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the department of Homeland Security. Mr. Mile myles has worked with e Homeland Security investigation for over ten years and has an impressive record. Welcome. Next we have the honorable michael who currently serve as a chair of scott county mississippi. Athe Law Enforcement duties include keeping the peace within the county and in addition to serving as the counties jailer and keeping the jail and currently lives in mississippi. Serving as the mayor of canton mississippi, one of the six cities with a raid on august 7. He was elected to the office in 2017 but began working in the Public Interest in the age of 16 and h he was accompanied at the table with the superintendent of public schools, one of the districts located. Without objection, the witnesses for students will be inserted into the record and i now ask each witness to summarize it his o