Rob Portman actually said...

"More than half of them, we think, are not showing up for the hearing, which is the whole idea: to get them with a family pending their hearing on their immigration status."

"We do not have any authority to go out and pull a child back from a sponsor once they are in that sponsor's custody."

"I think we lose a tool that could be very important for us in a true national security situation."

"It is a very extraordinary remedy that ought to be used very carefully and very selectively."