The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security initiated a Memorandum of Agreement ...
We need to shut down this temporary prison-like facility, one that is unlicensed by the State of Florida.
We have got to do better.
The administration initiated a zero-tolerance policy, which, as a result, separated children from parents, adding to the...
Why are Federal facilities exempt?
Children have no freedom of movement.
I just might add that the bulk of the money in the supplemental is for permanent licensed beds, understanding your need.
Make no mistake, however, that it is administration policies that have brought us to the brink, a crisis created by fail...
Most chillingly, the administration introduced new bureaucratic delays and onerous fingerprinting requirements on sponso...
What we wanted was the protections for these children and a discharge plan, and those two pieces are what we still want.
In the Obama administration, the turnover was 35 days. It was 90 days last year.
That is not what is happening at Homestead.
That must end, and I am working on legislation to address this.
My hope is that, and just in terms of summarizing, Secretary Johnson, you support terminating the MOA.
I have been calling for ORR to process children more quickly out of this prison-like facility since the last Congress.
The guiding principle of U.S. and international law concerning these children must be the best interest of the child.
This is a stark violation of those children's best interests.
I saw it. Saw it. Saw it used with a patient--
