Heavier pocket of rain beginning to develop right around geyserville area, Alexander Valley road. Healeds burg highway 101. Its light rain from santa rosa to rohnert park and notice there pen grove area, glen ellen and sonoma down the street level here. 5th street west. Moderate pockets of rain. This is a 1 on the storm impact scale. Light system. Moderate rain at times. Breezy in spots. Expecting 4 tenths inch of rai rain. 11 00 oclock tonight we have rain moving across the north bay all the way across the central bay and then shifting by midnight into parts of the east about a i. At 2 00 a. M. Some scattered showers in the south bay. Ill length you know when the showers wind down if the big travel day could be impacted and we do have two more storms coming. Take a look at the thanksgiving forecast. Lining up. Thanks very much. U. S. State department issued an advisory for americans traveling to europe. Advisory issued monday says credible information indicates that Islamic State and
Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to examine the Current Crisis at the border regarding unaccompanied children. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today on the southwest border we are facing an escalating refugee crisis. Parents are handing over their Young Children by the thousands to cartels who are profiting by smuggling these kids to the United States. Many are under the age of 10. Including some barely old enough to walk. These children with no parents, relatives or legal guardians risk a perilous and sometimes fatal journey riding buses and trains from Central America via mexico. As a father of five, its unimaginable to me that what would compel a parent to risk the lives of their children on such a dangerous passage. Not to mention the risk of sexual assault, exploitations and the potential to be trafficked. When they arrive at the border, the children are simply turning themselves into the nearest Border Patrol agent. However, patrol stat
Property, reaches out to a federal agency and makes its way through one, two, three other federal agencies and federal agents show up at the property. Its confirmed then, it could easily have been confirmed through some kind of internet search, google, that the property was not available. It just created a lot of confusion in the local community. Well, i imagine its just some investigators being thorough. As i mentioned, that property obviously is not an option to deal with this situation. Its an upandrunning occupied hotel. Just seems to me more Due Diligence could have, should have been exercised here before federal agents were sent unannounced to a functioning hotel and spa facility for the purposes of housing unoccupied children that cross the border. I yield back. Gentlemen, id like to remind the members the purpose of this hearing is to address unaccompanied minors crossing the border. The chair now recognizes dr. Brown from georgia. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, januar
The United States. This is a good start. But a lot more needs to be done. In addition to a robust and Effective Public Service campaign, we should also engage with the government of mexico to step up their efforts to secure their southern border. I call on the president of mexico and his interior minister to do just that. Im very concerned that this recent surge is weakening our Border Security efforts here at home. Border patrol agents and officers who are looking after these children are being taken away from their main duty, their mission of tracking down drug and weapon smugglers as well as criminal aliens. Operation control of the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest sector in the nation, may be suffering. And cartels will no doubt exploit this situation. Recently the state of texas announced that it would surge Border Security operations along the border to fill a void left by the federal government. Securing the border is a responsibility of the federal government. States should not n
Facilities, these are licensed facilities. It is diligent work by a lot of federal agencies to get this work, and it is time consuming. Thats why we looked at some intermediate steps to increase bed capacity within custom and Border Protection. But you do have, i believe, additional requests that have been identified from omb that there will be Additional Resources required in the next year. We continue to work within our authorities and within the budgets we currently have. Mr. Vietello, can you tell us whether or not the Border Patrol as its presently staffed can meet this influx of young people coming across the border . As is typical, the men and the women of the Border Patrol have stepped up to this task. I think you heard the secretary describe that we were there on friday. We watched the hard, diligent, heroic work they are doing to make the best of the situation. Its our its my assessment and what we heard from the leadership on the ground down there, the agents that are involv