Detention did work.
I want to quick interject here because I need to help our hearing moving forward to really get clarity on the whole judicial process here.
I think it is pretty obvious that there are both push and pull factors at work here in terms of why people come to this country.
The Obama Administration recognized that was a problem, and so they began detaining families so they could adjudicate the claims.
What we are trying to do in this Committee is look at that one specific problem and try and fix that on, I would call it, a nonpartisan basi...
I do not think that is an acceptable state of affairs.
This is just an ongoing problem, and, again, I would argue there are certainly things in our laws that have created an incentive for childre...
I do not think anybody wanted to do that.
We really do need to take a look at alternatives to detention, take a look at research, take a look at the cost-effectiveness of that.
I think a sovereign nation needs to do that--enforce our immigration laws, maintain reasonable asylum standards, and also keep asylum-seekin...
No one, including Russia, should think they can murder people with chemical weapons and get away with it.