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House Judiciary Committee Announces Oversight Hearing on Family Separation Policy
Washington,
February 4, 2019
Tags:
Immigration
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday February 12, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a full committee hearing to conduct oversight of the Trump Administration's family separation policy, finally holding the Administration accountable for the inhumane and callous policy that separated children from their parents at the border.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following statement ahead of the hearing: “Conducting oversight of the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is long overdue. There has been little oversight of the role that the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and Health and Human Services played in creating and implementing an abhorrent policy that resulted in thousands of children being separating from their parents at the border.” “It is clear that the Departments were either incompetent, or grossly negligent, in the policy’s implementation, which only compounded the trauma inflicted on innocent children. Many questions still remain and it is time for a full accounting of this shameful policy.” Below is a list of witnesses testifying at the House Judiciary Committee family separation hearing next week: Nathalie R. Asher Acting Executive Associate Director Enforcement and Removal Operations Immigration and Customs Enforcement Joseph Edlow Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Policy Department of Justice Scott Lloyd Senior Advisor Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives Health and Human Services Carla Provost Chief U.S. Border Patrol Customs and Border Protection Jonathan White Commander U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Department of Health and Human Services
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