[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 65 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          RECOGNIZING HEROIC ACTIONS OF U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE

  (Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the heroic 
actions of the U.S. Marshals Service.
  Last month, the U.S. Marshals Service issued this press release: In 
an ongoing joint operation known as Operation Homecoming, the U.S. 
Marshals, in coordination with the National Center for Missing and 
Exploited Children and other Iowa agencies, have located 21 missing 
Iowa children between the ages of 4 and 17 since October 2020.
  As a mother, I cannot begin to imagine the heartache the families of 
these children have endured, but thanks to the U.S. Marshals Service 
and other agencies tasked with finding missing and exploited children, 
these 21 children have finally been brought home.
  I would like to thank Deputy Marshal Christopher Siemens, U.S. 
Marshal Doug Strike, and the more than 50 local task forces that are 
working to return Iowa children home to their families.
  Speaking of missing and exploited children, it cannot go without 
saying that, for missing and exploited children, know what is happening 
at our border is a travesty. I want to thank Customs and Border 
Protection agents for all they are doing to try to reunite these 
children and get them safely to their end result. But it should not 
continue as the U.S. Federal Government, under this administration, is 
engaged in a human smuggling operation.

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