Does the Senator know the origin of the law which requires that an unaccompanied child be turned over within 72 hours by the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Health and Human Services, specifically the Office of Refugee Resettlement? Does the Senator from Texas know who introduced that bill and who signed it into law?
Dick Durbin: “Does the Senator know the origin of the law which requires that an unaccompanied child be turned over within 72 hours by…”
On the recordJune 26, 2014
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