“So there was no parent who has been deported, to my knowledge, without multiple opportunities to take their children with them,” Nielsen testified.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before Congress on Wednesday that parents were deported without their children but said they were given several chances to take their children.
"At that same time their consulate or embassy—for purposes of issuing them travel papers—also asks them would you like to be removed with your children as you're removed... The judge also asked us to go back and ask the parents again, in conjunction with ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union]. Which we did. So there was no parent who has been deported, to my knowledge, without multiple opportunities to take their children with them.
Nielsen also testified on Wednesday that the department knows how many children it has detained—but that she didn't have the number with her. "Yes, ma'am," Nielsen responded, before adding,"I don't have that number in front of me. We have all of the numbers." Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on border security on Capitol Hill, on March 6. Nielsen testified that parents were deported without their children but said they were given several chances to take their children with them.
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