Meeting focused on steps taken to improve border facilities to provide medical care as well as medical evaluations given to migrants while they are in customs and custody. [no audio] subcommittee will come to order. The meeting today to receive testimony on the adequacy of dhs efforts to prevent child deaths in custody. The chair is authorized to clear the and recess at any time. Underwood will question. Representative garcia permitted to sit in question witnesses. Without objection, so ordered. Jaclyn was seven years old. Alonso, eight years old. Cordova, 10 years old. An, 16 years old. Carolos, 16 years old. Died in theen custody of the United States government in the past 18 months. They were migrants from Central America who died of preventable conditions that went untreated. Three of them spent the last hours of their lives in detention facilities on the southern border. We must never forget their names, suffering, or the terrible losses their families had to endure. We are here t
The subcommittee on Border Security facilitation and operations will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on assessing the adequacy of dhs efforts to prevent child deaths in custody. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. The chair asks unanimous consent that representative underwood be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. The chair asks unanimous consent that represent garcia would be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. Without objection, so ordered. Jacqueline call mckean, 7 years old. Phillipe gomez alonso, 8 years old. Darlene krista bell cordova, 10 years old. Wanda leone gutierrez, 16 years old. Wilmer ramirez vasquez, 2 years old. Carlos hernandez vasquez, 16 years old. These six children died in the custody of the United States government just in the past 18 months. These children were migrants from Central America who died of preventible conditions that went untreated. And
We go live now to capitol hill. This is live coverage from the Senate Judiciary committee on cspan 3. The hearing will come to order. Ill make an Opening Statement. Senator feinstein and senator corbyn and durbin would like to make a statement. Then well swear in the witness. Before i make my Opening Statement, there was a meeting last night with senator shelby and senator mcconnell and the republican members on the Appropriations Committee. Theres a lot of talk about the disaster at the border in terms of humanitarian assistance needed yesterday. So i think the game plan is that were going to take the 4. 5 billion that was in the disaster package that was unfortunately taken out and mark it up next week as a stand alone proposition to get money flowing to the border to deal with the Housing Conditions and take some stress not only off the agents but the migrants. I think it would be money well spent as 3. 3 billion for humanitarian assistance increase in the shelter capacity for unacc
City. You are looking at a live picture of new york city. This is the city where eric garner died in a confrontation with police on staten island. People are marching and chanting i cant breathe, a lot of them asking for change in the Police Department. To washington, d. C. Where protesters moved down pennsylvania avenue to the capital, their message hold cops responsible and black lives matter. All of this happening in boston where a short time ago the protest movement turned very tense for a new moments. Confrontations between protesters and police. Live to the streets of new york city. It seems as it is becoming nighttime here in new york city it is getting a little bit more intense. Absolutely. This crowd has not thinned out. We are really struck by the fact that this march was supposed to begin around 2 30. Even before that people came to Washington Square park to con gregate hours in advance. You can see it has not thinned out. There are so many people who have stuck with this. W
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