Officials point fingers on family separations
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
Updated 12:27 PM ET, Tue February 26, 2019
... Administration officials explained present day challenges, like an influx in family apprehensions, how the "zero tolerance" policy was rolled out, and defended efforts reunify families.
That provided little reprieve to Nadler, who immediately questioned Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost about the consequences of separations. Provost said there were "lessons learned," but also said that it's not Border Patrol's responsibility to reunify families, pointing to the Department of Health and Human Services instead.
Health and Human Services, however, did not develop the policy -- it was directed by the Justice Department. To that end, Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson asked James McHenry, the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, an agency within DOJ, about whether the agency provided any legal analysis on the policy. Johnson said he couldn't "discuss deliberations."
Lawmakers repeatedly raised concerns about the tracking of families who had been separated at the US-Mexico border. Lloyd, an HHS senior adviser who formerly served as the director of the Office of Refugee and Resettlement, disputed Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's claim that children were not being properly tracked ...
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