Mr. Bruce swartz, you are not going to be of very good witness if you want to answer questions based upon your knowledge in this area has supplied to us by the department of justice. Well, senator, as i said at the outset, i can speak to the criminal aspect here and the impetus for many of these children to live fully. Whether the basis for their asylum is sufficient will have to be determined in the proceedings themselves. Just a range. I am not prepared at this stage i will tell you this, it does not give me a lot of faith in the Public Officials who are dealing with this issue if they do not have some kind of gut instinct as to the number of people who are coming into this country that might actually really need asylum. That does not give me a very good sense of you having a handle on the situation. Senator, i will talk with my colleagues in the executive office of immigration review to give their review their view on that particular question. I can speak to the criminal justice asp
The firstatemala, lady launched a Massive Media campaign urging children not to migrate. Perezs party in the bottom on congress introduce legislation to introduce penalties and combat smuggling. The first lady lady has also played a prominent role in terms of public messaging. There is a newnd agreement signed between the withnment and mexico reference to be Border Security between their two countries. Some similar agreements and decisions by the Mexican Government in addition to those bilateral government pursue and seek to 11 eight those who seek to ride the train of death. Is that information i am is it correct . Or is it wrong . If it is right, is there anything off of his happening . It is correct. The efforts by the Central American governments and first ladies to highlight the dangers of the legal migration northward, especially for unaccompanied children, has been welcomed the bios by us. What we are able to do is change the Diamond Nation change the dynamic. Previously, migrat
Suggests that 50 of these children may need some form of protective service. That is an International Responsibility of the United States responsibility the United States also has to be mindful. Let me address with the chairman raised initially. The president is asking for 3. 7 billion. 3. 4 billion is dealing with the consequences of a failed policy within the native countries. Instabilityy means that is not safe for families and children therefore they are putting their unaccompanied children at risk by transit to the United States. 300 million is being used for dealing with the causes. We have programs in these countries. We have the Millennium Challenge Corporation that is operating in honduras and el salvador. We have partnership for growth operating in el salvador. We have the Central America Regional Security initiative. We have programs that were intended to deal with some of these issues. To me, the most Successful Program that was initiated to deal with a global problem that
Since 2007 and be under the age of 16 when you came, but you had to be in school, you had to have graduated from high school, you had to have attained a General Education Development certificate or be an honorably discharged veteran of the coast guard or the United States army. You cant do all that, unless you were here before 2007. So without objection, ill include the homeland Securities Development for deferred action in the list of items. Let me ask you, is it not true that president obama has deported more migrants than any president in u. S. History . That is correct, mr. Chairman. As a matter of fact, some have called him the deporter in chief. Now, it seems to me that congress has failed to act in its reform of the immigration system. In the absence of that system, what has been congress successful role is to dramatically increase border Customs Enforcement to the point where we have had the most deportations than at any other time. Let me ask two final questions. Are all 60,00