You may ask, why is it necessary to pass a law to get Health and Human Services to do mandatory checks on unaccompanied minors and to bar criminal alien sponsors? Well, that's because Laws barring that do not currently exist. And we need to make sure that. That this can never happen again. And now I yield to ranking member Padilla to give his opening statement. (11:26–11:30)
CLAIM
Asserts that there are no current laws barring criminal alien sponsors from assuming custody of unaccompanied minors.
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