As I have said in the past, HHS needs to terminate the MOA.
The Federal Government, and in particular the Department of Health and Human Services, should not in any way use vulnerable children as bait...
We tried in the 2019 Labor-HHS bill to say that siblings could not be separated, but they are separated.
Of course we need comprehensive immigration reform, but in terms of the policies we have in place, they are responsive even to the climate t...
Finally, you have to still establish a negotiated agreement.
My hope is that, and just in terms of summarizing, Secretary Johnson, you support terminating the MOA.
I have been calling for ORR to process children more quickly out of this prison-like facility since the last Congress.
That must end, and I am working on legislation to address this.
The guiding principle of U.S. and international law concerning these children must be the best interest of the child.
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.