Facilities this large warehousing this many children cannot do right by the kids.
First and foremost, children should not be detained.
Influx facilities are supposed to be temporary.
Let's rescind the rest of it, and let's get these children with good standards of care.
That must end, and I am working on legislation to address this.
My hope is that, and just in terms of summarizing, Secretary Johnson, you support terminating the MOA.
Where is your plan to ensure that children are placed with family members as quickly as possible?
Homestead is not a home. It's an industrial line for the processing of mass numbers of children.
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.
Make no mistake, however, that it is administration policies that have brought us to the brink, a crisis created by failed administration po...