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.

We have not looked at that. We do have ongoing work that is evaluating what CBP's plan is for deploying those funds.

How important is the $4.6 billion that the President requested months ago and that House Democrats delayed for several months before finally releasing it a week or two ago?

I'm concerned this report seriously misrepresents the supporting evidence that it's supposed to be based upon.

We can stop this hearing right now, because Chairman just laid out all of the congressional routes and avenues that Congress has to it.

Let's actually get to actually solving real issues instead of having theoretical college discussions on what is Congress' power.

Why aren't we putting those bills forward instead of having our authority taken over by the House Admin Committee on election bills?

The constitutional processes are very well addressed in the Constitution and in our processes.