Washington D.C. On Thursday February 4 2016 at 9:00 a.m. the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administrations New Normal?" At the hearing members will examine the swell of unaccompanied alien minors and family units crossing the southwest border and the Administrations lack of vetting of unaccompanied childrens sponsors in the U.S.
Recent statistics from the Border Patrol indicate a significant increase in the number of unaccompanied alien minors and family units illegally entering the United States. During the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2016 the number of unaccompanied alien minors illegally entering soared to over 17000 and family units increased to 21000.
This precipitous rise in illegal entry along the southwest border by people primarily from El Salvador Honduras and Guatemala was created and perpetuated by the Obama Administrations policies of non-enforcement of immigration laws and executive actions beginning in 2011 and continuing today which encourage them to make the dangerous journey from Central America through Mexico with the expectation that they will benefit from the Administrations de facto amnesty.
Additionally an investigation conducted by the Associated Press found that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lowered its safety standards during the border surge and placed unaccompanied alien minors in sponsors homes where some were sexually assaulted starved or forced to work with little or no pay.
Witnesses for the hearing are:
- Brandon Judd U.S. Border Patrol Agent and the President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National Border Patrol Council
- Steven McCraw Director Texas Department of Public Safety
- Jessica Vaughan Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies
- Democrat witness to be named
