The committee is convening today to examine 3 critical, related, and deeply troubling issues: The terrible deaths of young children in the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP); CBP's failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody; and CBP's improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by Congress for the care of migrants.
Thompson outlines the committee's focus on child deaths in CBP custody and funding misuse.
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