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House Oversight Committee holds hearing on treatment of migrants at the border - live updates
BY GRACE SEGERS
UPDATED ON: JULY 12, 2019 / 10:35 AM / CBS NEWS
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is holding a hearing Friday morning on the treatment of migrants at the southern border, amid multiple reports of poor conditions in detention centers.
In his opening statement, Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said that family separations were "more harmful, traumatic and chaotic than previously known." He also urged committee members to ask themselves, referring to the squalid conditions which migrant children sometimes endure at detention facilities, "Would you allow this for your own child?"
The committee heard first from a panel including Democratic congresswomen who recently visited the border facility in Clint, Texas: Reps. Veronica Escobar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley and Tlaib, along with Rep. Ilhan Omar, are a group of progressive members of the House -- with an extensive social media following -- known colloquially as "the Squad."
Four Republican members of the committee with districts near the border also testified in the hearing. Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs chided his Democratic colleagues for blaming border patrol officials for the poor conditions at detention facilities.
"We do not get anywhere by blaming the people who are doing their best to help these people," Biggs said.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-oversight-committee-holds-hearing-on-treatment-of-migrants-at-the-border/