HAPPENING NOW: A House Homeland Security subcommittee holds a hearing on unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S. border.

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.@RepBarragan: "Now is not the time to score political points... I am encouraged President Biden has committed to restoring humane border policies."
#WelcomeWithDignity
.@BennieGThompson: "We do not have to sacrifice border security to treat unaccompanied, vulnerable children with basic decency." #WelcomeWithDignity
.@ReichlinMelnick: "The number of children in border patrol custody has dropped 80% since last March." #WelcomeWithDignity
.@ReichlinMelnick: "Migrant children belong in the care of family and loved ones, not the government... Today we are seeing once again how decades of deterrence-based policies do not work." #WelcomeWithDignity
.@LongBeachMayor: "We must also expand resources for asylum seekers so unaccompanied children at the border have access to legal counsel..." #WelcomeWithDignity
Jennifer Podkul: "You can't deter away a refugee's situation." #WelcomeWithDignity @supportKIND
.@ReichlinMelnick: "Under MPP, as well as under Title 42, families are being handed over to the cartels and pushed into desperation." #WelcomeWithDignity
.@LongBeachMayor: "We believe in family reunification and that must be the goal..." #WelcomeWithDignity
.@ReichlinMelnick: "There are fewer families coming to the border today than there were under Trump in 2019." #WelcomeWithDignity
.@algreen: "I honestly believe some people think the solution is to keep the problem on the other side of the border... I am not one of those people." #WelcomeWithDignity

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