Expedite removal is only if you have somebody in detention. And if they are out, then we need some changes of the law, like the Senate deal does.
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I certainly ask you that whatever monies that we added for technology, the non-intrusive, move on that as much as possible.
To finish this, we added in the fiscal year 2024 $10 million for additional expedited removal assistance.
if Congress would do its job and pass the Senate bill, that I think is the first time since 1996 that we actually make some changes.
I would ask you to please look at title 8, expedited removal, when they are under custody under DHS.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I congratulate you on the new role as chairman of this subcommittee and welcome and look forward to working with you in a bipartisan way.
As I mentioned, this is a program that, when our former chair, Kay Granger and myself were in Laredo, we saw the needs for this so we established this, I think 2013 or 2014.





