Kirstjen Nielsen: “This is a legitimate National emergency, this is a twin crisis, and we can do better as a country.”

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.

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

We need to take operational control of the Southern Border.

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