The subcommittee will come to order. Today welcomed the chief of the board of patrol and i would note that the chief provost is the first woman to hold this important position. Chief, thank you for being here today. First, i want to a knowledge the men and women of the Border Patrol have faced a multitude of challenges this year with a high numbers of migrants missing common across the border. I know they worked long hours and have been asked to do work they have never imagined would be part of their jobs. I continue to believe the majority of your personal carry out their mission in a professional manner and treat those into custody with humanity. I have significant concerns about the reports of this treatment by some Border Patrol agents. Im also concerned that the Border Patrol culture may be too tolerant of a minority of bad actors. Understanding the many challenges facing the Border Patrol i hope we can Work Together to effectively address those challenges. That is part of why we
Appeals in new orleans heard from lawyers on opposing sides of the case. This is an hour and 45 minutes. You may proceed. Thank your honor and may it please the court, i will be sharing my time with mr. Letter from the house of representatives and dividing rebuttal time. To start with the issues raised in the court in the supplemental briefing order, we think the states were clearly injured by the judgment below and are aiming to appeal it. Judge elrod you might want to move the microphone. Mr. Siegel after this supplement briefing all parts greed that this court has part parties have agreed that this court has Appellate Jurisdiction under bins or. Legal harm from the courts order even though they now welcome it, and the participation of the states and house of representatives and sure is that there will be an adversarial presentation of the issues in this case. Turning to the other issues in this case, the central feature this appeal is that when judge engelhardt when you say youre st
Captioning performed by vitac and its taking my men and women away from their primary mission of border security. Just as were thinking about how to deal with this, i would just ask the members here to, you know, consider, once again, i want these these families and kids in either Family Residential centers or in health and Human Services. My time is up, but we did add money or we are proposing to add money for entry level positions so your men and women can do what they need to do and then we will get those folks to do the changing of diapers and all those things. Thank you. Yes. Mr. Rutherford. Thank you, madam chair. Chief, i almost want to apologize for the position that this congress and previous congresses have put you in. As a Law Enforcement officer myself, i know how frustrating it was for me back in the 70s when i was dealing with Domestic Violence cases and the law precluded me from putting people in jail that i knew had broken the law, that had abused women, and i couldnt d
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