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What we're covering hereDHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen appears before the House Homeland Security Committee for a hearing on border security.President Trump's national emergency declaration to build a border wall and the administration's"zero tolerance" immigration policy, which resulted in thousands of migrant children being separated from their undocumented parents.
In his opening remarks at a hearing on border security with DHS Secretary Nielsen, he characterized what the Trump Administration has said about border security “misleading at best,” declared that there is a “non-existent emergency” at the border, and pointed specifically to the family separations under the Trump Administration.
"To make matters worse," Thompson added,"the Administration bungled implementation of its cruel plan, losing track of children and even deporting parents to Central America without their children.” “Today we are seeing the results of a failure to act and a broken system,” she says in the testimony posted ahead of her appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee at 10am.
She also briefly touches on the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols, a policy that requires some asylum seekers to return to Mexico while they await their immigration court hearing, and describes it as a way to"dissuade those who intend to file false claims."
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