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Homeland security secretary jeh johnson discusses the federal governments response to the unaccompanied children at the u. S. mexico bordzer. Joining him, craig fugate and Customs Enforcement and health and Human Services department. This is about 30 minutes. Good afternoon. Im joined by fema administrator craig fugate, cbp administrator gill correspond cowski, i. C. E. Removal operations associate director tom holman and health and Human Services acting assistant secretary mark greenberging. Were here to update you on the steps we are taking to address the surge in unaccompanied children alon...

Has been putting out a lot of the wait time data as part of being very transparent about this. There has been concern that at the facility level they may not be looking at exactly the same data that we were releasing. We wanted to be very careful that we didnt have facility or Network Directors appear to be misleading their congressionals by saying, well, this is where we are and then having this National Data release Say Something different. So there was a caution put out to wait until we had distributed the data to them that was going to be released, and i will say it was an illworded docume...

Kind of breakdown from you. I would like to request well, one of the things that i learned from my department of defense experience is clear guidance in is indispensable. You dont issue clear guidance to the field and the how it is implemented is not going to look at all like what you intended. D. O. D. , whatever they issue new guidance, they always socialize, train to it the field and down the chain of command and so i spent a lot of time talking to our work force about how to better implement policy changes that are issued in washington, out of associate how to verbalize them and im determi...

Help us close the achievement gap. I can tell you from being in the trenches and talking and seeing enough data so far to tell you, i guarantee you that will be the sixth one. About to beand its proven. I will give you an example. Project done in North Carolina in the 1970s. They did quality early child education. Aen done well, it inoculates child for three years. In this one, they went into the home every two weeks and taught the parents how to do homework with the kids. Those kids when tracked all the way through high school were graduating at much higher rates, going to college at much hig...

Is meeting held during a proclaimed state of emergency and officials recommended measures to promote social distancing. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconchs meeting via sfgovtv and offer comment by calling the Public Comment phone number. I like to welcome the members of the public and staff for watching live on sfgovtv and i like to thank the sfgovtv staff for their support and their services. Madam secretary. Call the roll. Thank you. Chair gee. I note we have morgan sitting in as lipkins ash sense. With that director galley . Present. Drushth john baptis...