[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 104 (Thursday, June 21, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5370]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY NIELSEN

  (Mr. TED LIEU of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. Speaker, Homeland Security Secretary 
Nielsen brazenly told the American people that there was no policy of 
family separation. Then she reversed and said there was a policy, but 
she is not going to apologize for defending it. Then she reversed again 
and said it is actually not a policy, that only Congress can change the 
laws on it.
  Yesterday, the executive order by Donald Trump puts her statements 
very clearly in the spotlight as all lies. Her credibility has been 
shredded. She needs to resign.
  By the way, there are 2,300 babies and children still separated from 
their mothers and fathers. That is evil. That is sinful. We need to 
know where those children are and how we are going to reunite them.
  Mr. Speaker, 20 days ago, I led a letter to Secretary Nielsen, along 
with other Members of Congress, asking very basic questions:
  How do you make sure that some of those kids are not put with child 
molesters?
  How do you make sure we reunite those kids with their parents?
  She still has been unable to answer those questions. She needs to go. 
She needs to resign. She is a national embarrassment, and she is 
executing an evil policy.

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