| (April 26, 2021, 10:55 p.m.) -- On April 27, Mayor Robert Garcia will be one of four witnesses testifying in a virtual hearing of the House Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations, part of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The subcommittee hearing, titled "Unaccompanied Children at the Border: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Way Forward," is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. It will be chaired by Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA) with witnesses Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, (Policy Counsel, The American Immigration Council), Jennifer Podkul (VP for Policy and Advocacy, Kids In Need of Defense). Mayor Garcia and Lora Ries, (Director, Center for Technology Policy and Senior Research Fellow, Homeland Security (the latter the Heritage Foundation minority witness.) "This hearing will give Members an opportunity to hear from key witnesses to examine suggestions for improving our system for unaccompanied children," says the subcommittee's webpage. "Members of the Committee are eager to move forward with solutions, given the devastation wrought by four years of the Trump Administration’s cruel and ineffective immigration policies." The subcommittee's members are Congressmembers Nanette Barragan (D, CA) (chair), with Dem members Lou Correa (D, CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D, Missouri), Al Green (D. Texas), Yvette Clarke (D, NY) and Bennie G. Thompson (D, Mississippi Ex Officio). Republican members are ranking member Clay Higgins (R, Louisiana), with Repubicans Michael Guest (R, Mississipi), Dan Bishop (R, North Carolina, Andrew Clyde (R, Georgia) and John Katko (R., NY) Ex Officio. The Mayor's upcoming virtual testimony was first reported by Franklin Sims on his Facebook platform published The Memo [Scroll down for further.] |
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