If we can keep climate change down below 2 degrees, that will help with the initial causes of the devastating forest fires.

These are real kids. These are real families who were forcibly torn apart and they were kept apart by our Government.

Safe discharge and timely discharge have some friction between them.

I hope that we, as a committee, as a Congress--not necessarily in this committee, but this Congress--will look at all of the issues that are going on in the immigration system and take care, do the right thing.

Today we take a look at the Trump administration's ill-conceived and, frankly, shameful family separation policy that led to thousands of children being separated from their parents at the border.

As a nation, we are so much better than that.

I have seen the cages. I have walked through the cages. I have seen the children crying.

We have inflicted additional trauma on each and every one of those children.

To be clear, what happened to these children should never happen in this country.

Because of a policy put in place by this administration, unnecessary long-term harm may have been inflicted on thousands of children.

this is a legal act, coming to this Nation seeking asylum. This isn't even an unlawful entry.

I am wearing this 'X' because today is Human Slavery Awareness Day. Forty million people in this world are currently in the slave market, are currently enslaved.

I am for a border wall because, according to a DHS special agent, we need to build the wall for the children.

We are not a nation that rips families apart, and we need to stop this for once and for all and get these kids back with their parents.

I think that you agree that family separations inflicted lasting trauma on thousands of children and families.

I am disappointed he declined our request to testify.

The bottom line is this: This administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border--and the unmitigated chaos that it unleashed--has likely left scars that may never heal.

we, as a Congress, have a duty to provide support and resources to assist separated families.

I want to urge this committee and this Congress to not just focus on this issue of children at the border... but to also focus on the issue of what is a reality for many children that enter this country and enter the slave market.

I support keeping families together. Last summer, I voted to ban family separation, and I strongly believe that children should not be separated from their parents, period.

it was Judge Sabraw, who I actually practiced law with a long time ago.

It burdened discharge rate more than it benefitted safety.

It was heartbreaking. I'll never forget what I saw that day.

We intend to continue this investigation because many of the questions the Members have asked are questions you can't answer because these conversations took place above you.

Additional steps required to fingerprint all household members has had an impact on timely release of UAC without demonstrating benefit to the safety of children after they're released from ORR care.