And then a British Parliament committee on how scotland would be impacteded if the uk leaves the eu. And the conduct of irs commission is looked into. Peter neffenger testified about the agencys recent surge in wait times at t. S. A. Security checkpoints in u. S. Airports. He appeared at a House Homeland Security hearing. It is just over two hours. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting to examine the security challenges brought forth by increased passenger screening, checkpoint wait times. Before i begin, i would like to take a moment of silence for the victims and their family of egyptair 804. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Today we face a crisis at our airports. We have all read the headlines. Threehour long security lines, 438 American Airline passengers stranded overnight in chicago ohare, travelers from atlanta, charlotte and alaska waiting forever to be screened causing missing flights and further delays. More than 3,000
From honduras with their 3yearold son after her father beat her to cause her a miscarriage and threatened her with torture and death. When she was sent to jail, a guard gave favors to her and her son and told her that he could help her with her immigration case. When he initiated sex with her, she did not feel comfortable saying no. Because a guard can exercise so much control over the daily life of a detained person, including when she can eat, when she can sleep and when she can be punished notions of consent have little meaning in this context. Thats why pria treats any Sexual Conduct by a guard as a form of sexual abuse, regardless of apparent consent. But authorities at berks did not understand this rule. Rather than educate the women at berks about their rights under pria, the facilities announced new victim blaming policies against wearing tight or revealing clothing. The response must fall on ice for failing to comply with prias mandate. Ice deserves credit for implementing and
Detention existsystem is unknown and Oversight Authority within the agency is unclear. My written testimony identifies specific oversight and transparency mechanisms that the commission could push cbp to implement. Since others have commented extensively on the obama administrations cruel and unnecessary policy of detaining Central American immigrant families i will just emphasize one of the inevitable consequences of this policy something that was only public a announced by ms. Lucas today. Sadly, a baby girl in a ice detention facility will turn 1 month old. She and her mother have been in Homeland Security custody since she was 11 days old. The administrations decision to massively expand the detention of immigrant families with children means that many more newborns toddlers and Young Children will experience milestones like this while incarcerated. The commission can play an Important Role by calling for an end to these family detention policies. When ice does not implement its de
Persuading people to come on board from all parts of the political spectrum. I think its important if we can help us develop if we have the ability to do so, quantifying some of the dollars involved here versus in terms of the cost of currently incarceration, essentially, thats what it is. Incarceration of these individuals versus the cost of administrative parole, of ankle monitor release, show up rates in terms of coming to a Court Hearing and i was going to say and then looking at that seeing and i imagine that delta on that would be pretty big and within that delta, how much of that could go towards providing counsel for those folks to make it become a fairer fight. Again, my basic feeling is that americans are fair and they understand when people are fleeing something. Thats horrible that they should have a right to a good, fair hearing. I think if we can put in terms of dollar in some ways to do this, i think that would help us make that argument to a broader audience. The other
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