Investigations at specific Border Patrol headquarters, training and peace and the commission situation room. Although the office of the special counsel received complaints that overtime hours compensated were not being worked, the allegations are proven to constitute criminal or administrative violations our investigations did not substantiate any allegations that employees had received the compensation for hours that were not worked. The investigations did however substantiate aspects and questioned whether it was the appropriate mechanism for specific overtime compensation. In short, the investigations determined that work was conducted and importantly even where it wasnt the proper mechanism, they have an had an obligation and employees have an entitlement to be appropriately compensated for the overtime hours worked. The dhs and cbp have taken steps to address the situation. January 27 secretary thompson issued a memorandum to take immediate action to suspend certain categories and
Thanks to our colleagues and witnesses for working with the staff to enable us to put this hearing together fairly quickly. The purpose as you know is to examine 1691 the Border Patrol act of 2014 introduced by senator tester and mccain and this bill would make the badly needed reforms to the system of the Border Patrol for discourtesy too complicated and difficult to manage. I want to talk about what is happening currently along the borders over the past few years have seen a surge in the unauthorized migration from Central America which is nearing record highs and an unprecedented number of people operating at the border are unaccompanied children. Some are as young as ten years of age. They appropriately require that the children be treated differently than other migrants. They must be transferred department of health and Human Services and there are strict rules about their care. He announced he was creating a task force and devoting Additional Resources to coordinate the care. Sin
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