Yes, we need to do more in terms of discouraging people through the push factors and the pull factors from coming to our country.
Robert Portman
The Public Record
So you have an agreement with the sponsor, they have to provide this--an agreement with you, HHS. The child does not show up, and you are not even notified.
At a minimum let us stick to the facts. It is a problem. We have to deal with it.
What is your commitment you are going to make to us today as to when this Joint Concept of Operations agreement will be completed?
the President always tries to say that every child coming into this country is a gang member, which we know is total balderol, it is stupid, it is not true.
Thank you. Briefly, in terms of the timing here, 26 months since we started this process, over a year since you promised it in your own Memorandum of Agreement.
In 2015, I learned the story of eight unaccompanied minors from Guatemala who crossed our Southern Border.





