Integration status of the sponsors to whom the unidentified children are released . We verify the identity of the individual thats not the question i asked you. The immigration status. We do not verify the immigration status of the individual. Our focus in the release is first identify the least restrictive setting in the childs best interest. As we do that we also need to look at safety to the child, safety to the community, risk of flight, so we go through the overall process of looking at the individual placement to queen sure that it is a safe and appropriate placement for the child. Let me saw follow up question. Isnt it true that if you place an unaccompanied child with an illegal alien sponsor, that the significant likelihood is they would not want to bring that child to a deportation hearing before an immigration judge for fear they would expose their own illegal status . So, for us as we go through the process of identifying sponsors, we ensure that the sponsor understands the
Information. 14 and above, theyre all fingerprinted. Those fingerprints are run against the databases here in the United States. So that if it was somebody a little bit older that had been deported or had been arrested or was involved in a gang. We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure the vast majority of what were seeing are not in that threat category, but we have to be very careful. Well, as has been reported and i dont have any personal knowledge of this, that the number of drug seizures on the border since this crisis has decreased because resources have been deployed to deal with the emergency of this crisis. Is that correct . The number of drug seizures has decreased in that particular sector, but a couple things. Actually having watched it pretty carefully for the five years i served as the president s drug policy adviser, those numbers fluctuate a lot. Now that we have two state where is you can grow your own marijuana, im
We know with Central America, the difficulties they have down there with their economy and other challenges. As time goes on, youre going to see other parts of the world, for example, india, migration from india into the United States. And weve already seen spikes of that in the last few years. But the whole flow is changing. I just read yesterday where mexico has signed a 1 billion deal with bmw to build a factory down in mexico. The creation of more jobs in mexico and to the commissioners point, the economy is prospering there. It does come down to, i think, so much comes down to opportunity. And the folks that were encountering on the border, from guatemala, honduras, and el salvador, dont have that Economic Opportunity. Opportunit. Gangs, violence as well as Family Members here and thats whats driving it. Mr. Chairman, also i think you talk about whats working and the trade integration thats happened in north america between the United States remember canada and mexico has created
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