A group of House Republicans is demanding a hearing on the White House’s response to unaccompanied illegal immigrant children found near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a letter sent Thursday. Noting a “sharp increase in unaccompanied alien children” along the border, the lawmakers said there should be “proper oversight” over the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. immigration enforcement, and the Department of Health and Human Services to determine whether there is a plan to stop the surge of migrants. In recent days, warnings from a Democratic lawmaker whose district includes a portion of Texas along the Southern Border, as well as an SUV crash that killed at least 13 people in Southern California that Border Patrol agents believe included illegal immigrants who were smuggled through a fence gap, have placed more pressure on the Biden administration to outline a comprehensive plan for what some have described as a …
House GOP Demands Hearing on Biden’s Response to ‘Surge’ in Children at Southern Border
March 4, 2021
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