Kevin McAleenan to Congress: Allow Us To Keep Families Together

‘We’ve offered three targeted fixes to our immigration laws that would address this crisis’

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MCALEENAN: “Absolutely. We’ve offered three targeted fixes to our immigration laws that would address this crisis. Allow us to keep families together as they arrive at the border through a fair and transparent immigration proceeding. Allow us to provide a safe way for children to seek protections from their host countries or a neighboring country, not to make that dangerous journey in the hands of smugglers, but to repatriate them and allow us to modify the standards so initial barrier is more consistent with an ultimate finding from a judge at the end of the proceeding. But we’re going to work with Mexico, we’re going to work with our Central American partners, we’re going to try to address this at the source and increase our border security at the same time.”

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