Department of Homeland Security Advisory Panel Wants Congress To Make It Easier To Keep Migrant Kids Detained
Members of the the Department of Homeland Security advisory council recommended Congress enact emergency legislation to make it easier for the Trump administration to detain children with their parents indefinitely, according to a draft report released to the acting secretary on Tuesday.
The council, which consists of a group of bipartisan members, provides the secretary with advice on how to approach policy decisions across a broad range of homeland security topics. A council subcommittee spent nearly seven months looking at the issue of the treatment of family and children on the southern border and conducted several site visits and conducted more than 100 interviews in the drafting of the report.
The report was formally released to Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan on an advisory council conference call Tuesday afternoon.