CONGRESS: Senate Oversight Hearing on “Immigration Enforcement and Family Reunification Efforts” (Washington Update August 2, 2018)

by | Aug 2, 2018 | NCFPP, Washington Update

On July 31, the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), held a hearing on efforts to reunify the immigrant families separated at the southern US border. The witnesses were all administration officials. Notably, one witness — a social worker who is an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps — told the Senators that he had advised administration officials that children would be psychologically harmed if separated from their parents. A recording of the hearing and written witness testimony are available on the committee website.

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