Kirstjen Nielsen

The children are not being used as a pawn. We are trying to protect the children.

Military bases are not child care facilities and it is impossible to conceive how someone could confuse the two.

The current practice of the Trump Administration the taking children from their parents is unconscionable and should end immediately.

The 'remain in mexico' policy should be eliminated

There is nothing humane about a system that contemplates what we see today, that contemplates 60,000 children coming across the border unaccompanied...

Border security policies should protect the integrity of our immigration system and our Nation's commitment to extending protection to those in need of safety--particularly children.

We urge the committee to consider our recommendations and to hold the Trump administration accountable to do what Congress has mandated: Allow asylum seekers to apply for protection in the United States.

I can say with absolute certainty that the United States would be unsafer, sir.

We need to take operational control of the Southern Border.

Yes, I do. The numbers are increasing so quickly that our system, which I have testified to before, was at the breaking point.

I support a legal status for the DACA population.