Dr. Gilfillan, thank you so much for assuming these responsibilities for our country. The work that you are doing, the w...
How do we measure success? Is it the number of folks we apprehend trying to get into the country illegally?
Thank you again for the opportunity to testify today. I look forward to answering any questions you may have.
I was down along the border of U.S. and Mexico in Arizona with Senator McCain.
So you have people who have family members, maybe people who were released on the criminal case--they had a criminal cas...
And, Ms. Stampp, if they do not have access to counsel--and in a majority of cases they do not--then where do immigrants...
And if we decide, oh, we are for numerical limits, then you have to enforce those limits, and you have to find a way to ...
I would submit that currently the immigration detention system has broken down because the detainees do not have attorne...
Congress has a lot of significant issues to work through if we are to be successful in reaching an appropriate compromis...
But when I tell people that our immigration system does not allow immigration judges to consider circumstances, to balan...
They say they also want a system that protects the American work force and grows our economy.
In my experience, most times they are not aware of the legal options available to them.
we are marking the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright and the recognized right to counsel for American citizens in...
Let me say that again. In terms of enforcement, we are certainly investing enough, nearly $16 billion in the last fiscal...
As Senator Coons so graciously acknowledged, I myself am an immigrant...
America earned its place in the world because of the immigrants who have come before us, bringing their culture, bringin...
As Senator Coons stated, DHS imprisons over 400,000 people every year.
I have spent a lot of time in immigration detention centers and can tell you firsthand that they are prisons.
