CSPAN House Hearing On Children In CBP Custody July 12, 2024
Children in the custody the committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of customs and Border Protection, cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year, another three children died in ...