Thomas McClintock actually said...

"Not just an increase, but a significant increase where they're coming through the legal ports of entry or coming illegally across the border itself?"

"If you're not actually able to verify their identity, run criminal records, it doesn't sound like you are doing very much to screen for criminals entering the country."

"And the TVPRA requires that these unaccompanied children being released to the HHS, the HHS is then supposed to process the children, find their relatives and foster care for them."

"They're violating their own regulations and the Flores Agreement by keeping these children, but they'd be violating the TVPRA by releasing these children to anyone other than HHS."