senator shelby is on his way from voting, and the official part of the hearing will begin shortly. i just wanted to go over two things. one, as you all know, today is the hearing on the supplemental request submitted by the administration to cover the unexpected and unanticipated needs of the significant number of unaccompanied children coming to our border. i want those who follow our committee so very closely to know that on tuesday we will be marking up the defense appropriations subcommittee, and we will do a full committee markup on the defense bill defense appropriation on thursday. the committee should be alerted that if we can get other things done during the week with appropriate notice following the rules, we will do so. however, we will not do anything until after tuesday afternoon. so we know that monday, tuesday tuesday morning will be the subcommittee on defense markup. we ll look for also opportunities because there are unfinished business at the full com
coming back, the children, the children accompanied by their parents and the unaccompanied adults. we re doing that. we re dramatically reducing the time it takes for that to happen and we re asking for the additional resources to my department and to the department of justice to turn these people around quicker including the children. so we re asking for that and in terms of the change in law as i said a moment ago, we re asking and this will be in a separate submission for the ability to treat unaccompanied kids from the central american countries in the same way we would someone from a contiguous country so that we have the ability to offer them voluntary return which the kids from mexico do accept. senator murray. thank you for holding this hearing today. i think everybody this this room, republicans, democrats are at least in agreement that what we re seeing along the nation s southwest border is simply unacceptable. as some have mentioned, the numbers of young peopl
will be coming to our courts. it will be substantial. i want to help you with this, but how can you come to us with a budget request if you don t know how many courts or how it s going to speed this process? i think every one of you talked about speeding up the process to making sure the kids get back to the appropriate that need to go back to the country. i want to be helpful. i want to vote for this. senator, may i? sure. the assumption underlying the request from doj is that we ll be able to add an additional case load of 55,000 to 75,000 cases a year. overall. and right now they are handling how many a year? right now the pending case load is 275,000. 275,000. okay. okay. significant. how many kids are going to come into the border every day? these days, it s up the total apprehensions of the kids unaccompanied is about 250. it was higher. it s down to somewhere between 200 and 250 a day. so we will be able to make significant inroads into these kids a
and it demonstrates what happens when the president unilaterally decides to issue an executive order affecting immigration without securing the border. the number of children more than doubled between fiscal year 2011 and fiscal year 2013. yet until just recently, the president did not even speak out to warn their parents and to tell them that the bjojourney wd be horrendous for their children and they would be sent home. we know many of these children have been abused or harmed on their way here. and when the wave became evident two years ago, the president took no action at that time to try to stem the tide. we know that it will take a long time before all of these children have hearings that could lead to their being support home, if they show up at all for the adjudications. so my question is what specifically is the administration doing to propose changes in the laws or regulations right now so that these children can be safely and immediately put on planes and returned
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