Ending Medicaid coverage for non-emergency medical transportation would literally have been a matter of life and death for many of these individuals.
We still have to be vigilant and ensure that this important benefit remains available to our most vulnerable citizens.
Most chillingly, the administration introduced new bureaucratic delays and onerous fingerprinting requirements on sponsors.
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.
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 Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security initiated a Memorandum of Agreement using children as ba...
The administration initiated a zero-tolerance policy, which, as a result, separated children from parents, adding to the numbers of unaccomp...
Frankly, in my view, that delay compounded--that delay by Congress compounded the crisis at the border and made things worse, not better.