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Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 21 transcript matches
UNKNOWN "families. However, the bill as written allows for the detention of entire families without regard to whether any of the children are U.S. citizens. As the majority knows, U.S. citizens cannot be detained under current law. That is why my amendment simply clarifies that families with U.S. citizen children may not be detained under this bill. The bill language is poorly drafted, and a plain reading of it explicitly allows for families with U.S. citizen children to be detained and or for immigrants to be indefinitely in family detention facilities, separated from their U.S. citizen children...."
Hearing “Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. Doe”
house Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee · Mar 18, 2026 · Transcript · 10 transcript matches
ROY, CHIP "And you accused me. I'm the chairman of this committee, Mr. Sines, and it's my time. And the fact of the matter is, the people of Texas, the people of Texas, Ms. Drogan, are the ones left holding the bag. Are the taxpayers in Texas paying education for illegal alien children to the detriment of American citizen children? Can you expand on that? We talked about it before on the numbers. We've had over 100-something thousand unaccompanied alien"
Hearing Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · May 12, 2026 · Transcript · 9 transcript matches
AGUILAR, PETE "Meanwhile, you've testified that we don't have enough money for these housing programs. We need to do everything we can to ensure access to affordable housing for Americans, and that means American citizen children as well. I want to pick up on a thread that you had with Representative Zanke. I'm extremely concerned about HUD's new proposed mixed status rule and that it will result in the displacement of families and children from their homes. In my district, we know of 61 such American citizen children at risk in my district, California's including eligible citizen children, that your..."
Hearing Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and tourists.
senate Constitution Subcommittee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript · 9 transcript matches
MS. AMANDA FROST "Um, so before I answer that, I'll just say Senator Schmidt said that my statement was false regarding what executive branch officials had, uh, described the sensitive clauses requiring before president Trump's executive order. I'll just say the quotes you read are not inconsistent with what I said. No executive branch official has ever taken the position that people who are domiciled in the United States as undocumented immigrants are, that their children are not citizens. And that's not inconsistent with the quotes you read. So, uh, just to clear that up now, your question, um, his parents,..."
CRS Report
U.S. Citizenship for Children Born Abroad: In Brief
Reports · Aug 25, 2022
Children born abroad may acquire U.S. citizenship through qualifying U.S. citizen parents. This report summarizes Immigration and Nationality Act provisions under which children born abroad may...
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"families. However, the bill as written allows for the detention of entire families without regard to whether any of the children are U.S. citizens. As the majority knows, U.S. citizens cannot be detained under current law. That is why my amendment simply clarifies that families with U.S. citizen children may not be detained under this bill. The bill language is poorly drafted, and a plain reading of it explicitly allows for families with U.S. citizen children to be detained and or for..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"I yield to the gentlelady from Washington, but save me some time because I've got some questions. Okay, you got it. I just wanted to respond to the gentleman from Texas's comments because we are explicitly fixing an error in your bill that says that either you have to detain U.S. citizen children with their families or you have to separate them. them. We are saying, no, let's exempt the families who have U.S. citizen children so that you can keep families together. This is all about keeping..."
Hearing “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_06 "A corrupt politician, prosecuted by Trump's Justice Department in the first term, pardoned by Trump in this term. Trump has pardoned fraudster after fraudster, denying victims. We talked about victims, taxpayers, senior citizens, children, the restitution they deserve, $1.3"
CRS Report
Birthright Citizenship: Litigation Status Update
Legal Sidebar · Apr 3, 2026
On April 1, 2026, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara regarding Executive Order 14160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” (E.O. 14160 or the E.O.),...
Hearing H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
JAYAPAL, PRAMILA "60,000 immigrants across this country are incarcerated every single night in private for-profit detention facilities. And in the cases of these last two individuals and the families they left behind, our hearts should cry out. Mr. Salgado Araujo's U.S. citizen children heard their father's last words crying for heard their father's last words crying for help before he was killed on social media. That's how they found out he was dead. Mr. Guerrero's wife and three-year-old daughter are left in complete trauma and terror. And all of this has been driven by supercharged enforcement from the..."
Hearing “Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
JAYAPAL, PRAMILA "ICE doubled in size. Instead of funding Americans' health care or housing or child care, Republicans poured over $210 billion, $210 billion into ICE and CBP. DHS officers killed two U.S. citizens in cold blood in Minnesota. Have we had a hearing on that? No, we haven't. They beat and detained countless U.S. citizens for exercising First Amendment rights and broke down doors without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment. ICE has imprisoned 400,000 people just in the interior of this country since Trump came in. Parents, children, military veterans, U.S. citizens, people on valid..."
Hearing “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
CORREA, J. LUIS "leave. Thank you. I'm gonna submit it also for the record. Objection. And Madam Secretary, is your department the painting detaining U. S. Citizens? No, we're not. We have. Have you taken any American citizens to your facilities to be processed? If they're children and families that. Have you detained American citizen adults? I think there have been individuals that"
CRS Report
Naturalization: Policy Overview and Selected Trends
InFocus · Sep 16, 2025
Naturalization is the voluntary process by which a foreign national becomes a U.S. citizen. In 2024, approximately 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens were residing in the United States,...
CRS Report
DACA Rescission: Legal Issues and Litigation Status
Posts · May 23, 2018
On September 5, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a memorandum announcing its decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative (DACA), which the Obama...
CRS Report
The Legality of DACA: Recent Litigation Developments
Posts · Sep 20, 2023
On September 13, 2023, a federal district court held that a 2022 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that seeks “to preserve and fortify” the agency’s long-standing Deferred Action for...
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"them this lawful parole, they are then going to be deported back to the one parent who is abusing them. So if you really are a person of faith who cares about the humanity of people and wants to do right by people, then why don't you care about children, whether they are immigrant children or American citizen children? Why are you punishing children, children who often are not making decisions of their own because as we know from our own law, children generally are not considered capable of..."
CRS Report
U.S. Naturalization Policy
Reports · Apr 15, 2024
Naturalization is the process that grants U.S. citizenship to lawful permanent residents (LPRs) who fulfill requirements established by Congress and enumerated in the Immigration and Nationality Act...
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_25 "Massed agents have broken into homes without warrants, locked up violent, non-violent protesters, deported sick children with cancer, killed two American citizens who were lawfully exercising their First and Second Amendment rights. Instead of going after the worst of the worst, nearly three out of four people booked into ICE custody have no criminal convictions"
Hearing H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
VAN DREW, JEFFERSON "They investigate, they find out what they're doing, they know what they're doing. They're hurting our babies, our children, our American people, our American citizens. They're killing them. And yeah, we do have to keep our borders closed, and we do have to defend our borders, and those that would push those drugs on others have to be"
Hearing An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE KEITH ELLISON "Our policies, our values, and how we vote, and it comes at a great cost. Senators, it comes at a cost of the lives of two U.S. citizens, Rene Good and Alex Pretty. It comes at the cost of shuttered businesses, Mr. Chairman, disruptions in education for tens of thousands of children, lasting harm to Minnesota's economic prosperity and social cohesion. And it comes at a cost, Mr. Chairman, to our"
Testimony ROY, CHIP
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"And you accused me. I'm the chairman of this committee, Mr. Sines, and it's my time. And the fact of the matter is, the people of Texas, the people of Texas, Ms. Drogan, are the ones left holding the bag. Are the taxpayers in Texas paying education for illegal alien children to the detriment of American citizen children? Can you expand on that? We talked about it before on the numbers. We've had over 100-something thousand unaccompanied alien"
CRS Report
Ninth Circuit Applies Limited First Amendment Exception to Doctrine of Consular Nonreviewability
Legal Sidebar · Jul 7, 2026
On April 30, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Gonzalez v. U.S. Department of State resolving the merits of a constitutional challenge to a State...
CRS Report
Immigration: Public Charge 2022 Final Rule
Posts · Oct 18, 2022
Under federal immigration law, a noncitizen (alien) who is likely to become a public charge is deemed inadmissible, or ineligible to be admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident...
CRS Report
U.S. Citizenship Through Military Service and Options for Military Relatives
Resources · Apr 29, 2022
Overview Obtaining U.S. citizenship provides certain benefits to immigrants, including the right to vote, security from deportation, and eligibility for a U.S. passport. Congress has provided...
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"to unleash a rogue militia on the streets of America with loaded-up arrest quotas of 2,000 people a day that have led to the killing of at least six people in ICE enforcement activities, and 65,000 people every single day being incarcerated in for-profit detention facilities that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars and don't even meet basic required conditions of human decency. Now, just last week, ICE agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Houston, Texas, and..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"A 13-year-old girl attempted suicide with a plastic knife and hitting her head repeatedly. The idea that my Republican colleagues would not only endorse these horrors but actively seek to impose them on more children, including U.S. citizens, is grotesque. But sadly, unless there is a drafting error, that is exactly what this bill does. Immigration officers arrested Jackie and her family, including her four U.S. citizen"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"When Jackie went to hug her sister, agents arrested the whole family, accused them of attempted alien smuggling, and took everyone but the sister, who remained across the border in Canada, into custody. The whole family remained in custody for weeks, and DHS was working to get passports for the U.S. citizen children so they could deport the entire family. Fortunately, family members and friends were able to get the children out of custody, but We have heard countless stories from across the..."
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Somebody please find me the numbers on that. We know there's lots of citizens. But this is an attempt to codify it and to say that U.S. citizen children can be held indefinitely by Homeland Security and ICE because one of their parents is being held and we'll just sweep in the whole family. And they rejected, I believe it was Ms. Ballant's amendment to deny the right of family"
Testimony UNKNOWN
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Since Trump was sworn into office, ICE has detained and deported thousands of parents, leaving many children, including U.S. citizens, separated from their caregivers. In just the first seven months of President Trump's second term, at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children had a parent detained. In just the first seven months of President Trump's second term, at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children had a parent detained. 145,000 U.S. citizen children since Donald Trump returned to"
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"The court recognized in Plyler that education provides the basic tools by which individuals might lead economically productive lives to the benefit of us all. And in the 44 years since, the children who've benefited from these protections, including some who have since become citizens and legal permanent residents, have grown up to contribute immensely to our country. A report by FWD.US found that Plyler beneficiaries have driven economic growth by paying over $633 billion more in state and..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Mr. Saenz, I want to return to something that the gentleman from California said. Did the Supreme Court say that a family could not be removed from the country if their non-citizen children were in a public school, or are they still deportable if the family's not here lawfully? What would one of those be? You mean if they were seeking asylum, for"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Mr. Saenz, would removing students like Itzel from the classroom also create a permanent underclass? What about the impact on U.S. citizen children? What's the impact in the classroom likely to"
Testimony MR. JAMES ROGERS
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"As we've heard, they impose a tremendous burden. Because most of them arrive not speaking English. They require special services, which means that American citizen children can't get those services because there's limited resources. An interesting example of the policy decision about this is if a temporary immigrant arrives with a tourist visa, they're actually required to pay"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"60,000 immigrants across this country are incarcerated every single night in private for-profit detention facilities. And in the cases of these last two individuals and the families they left behind, our hearts should cry out. Mr. Salgado Araujo's U.S. citizen children heard their father's last words crying for heard their father's last words crying for help before he was killed on social media. That's how they found out he was dead. Mr. Guerrero's wife and three-year-old daughter are left in..."
Testimony THOMPSON, BENNIE G.
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"A recent report by the Brookings Institution found that 147,000 U.S. citizen children were separated from a parent under Trump's mass deportation"
Testimony AGUILAR, PETE
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"Meanwhile, you've testified that we don't have enough money for these housing programs. We need to do everything we can to ensure access to affordable housing for Americans, and that means American citizen children as well. I want to pick up on a thread that you had with Representative Zanke. I'm extremely concerned about HUD's new proposed mixed status rule and that it will result in the displacement of families and children from their homes. In my district, we know of 61 such American citizen..."
Testimony AGUILAR, PETE
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"What I am talking about, you're conflating these issues. What I'm talking about is U.S. citizen children are not being allowed support through your programs if they have a mixed status family. Let me describe how this works. So a U.S. citizen parent with maybe a lawful permanent resident, other parent, or an undocumented other parent, and two U.S. citizen children are how it has been"
Testimony AGUILAR, PETE
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"I'm not asking you to do anything that hasn't been done in other administrations. What I'm asking you to do is follow the law which supersedes your rulemaking and do not hold U.S. citizens, children, to a different standard. Do not displace 61 kids in my district because you have a separate interpretation and because you think we just don't have enough"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"A corrupt politician, prosecuted by Trump's Justice Department in the first term, pardoned by Trump in this term. Trump has pardoned fraudster after fraudster, denying victims. We talked about victims, taxpayers, senior citizens, children, the restitution they deserve, $1.3"
Testimony WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, DEBBIE
Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025
"DREAMers represent the type of ambitious and dedicated individuals who would strengthen the federal government's workforce and represent a population that is too often ignored here in Washington. The same is true in any field of work. We should break down barriers for employing qualified legal immigrants. It makes all of us better off. We should encourage DREAMers to contribute to our country, not threaten to kick them out and separate them from the only country and communities that they know...."
Hearing “A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security”
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
THOMPSON, BENNIE G. "A recent report by the Brookings Institution found that 147,000 U.S. citizen children were separated from a parent under Trump's mass deportation"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Bill, Updated Interim Subcommittee Allocations
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 26, 2025 · Transcript
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, DEBBIE "DREAMers represent the type of ambitious and dedicated individuals who would strengthen the federal government's workforce and represent a population that is too often ignored here in Washington. The same is true in any field of work. We should break down barriers for employing qualified legal immigrants. It makes all of us better off. We should encourage DREAMers to contribute to our country, not threaten to kick them out and separate them from the only country and communities that they know. Before I close, I want to read these points from the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Many..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
JONATHAN INGRAM "It's fraud by design. The fraud has two faces. Criminal syndicates billing from overseas and rules quietly manipulated from cubicle. But the victims are the same. American families pay their taxes, trusting Congress to spend their carefully. And the people this program was built for, senior citizens, pregnant women, children with disabilities, are left competing for resources that were stolen or diverted by bureaucrats before they ever arrived. Start with the scale. More than one in five Medicaid dollars is spent improperly, and before the one big beautiful bill, taxpayers were on track to..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture"
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_42 "We haven't spent as much time. I think maybe the temperature has come down, and we realize that the Making America Healthy Again movement, along with agriculture, do go hand in hand. And while the primary beneficiaries will be the American citizen and our children, that the—almost as important, the beneficiaries will be our great farmers and ranchers and the importance that they play in that. Of course, alongside so many of our farmers that produce great commodities that go to feed livestock around the world or go to—into the fuel tanks here in America, there's an incredible balance there...."
Hearing “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies”
house Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee · May 14, 2026 · Transcript
NADLER, JERROLD "thank you mr. chairman mr. chairman this subcommittee has hardly been busy this year clearly Republicans have no desire to conduct oversight of the Trump administration's brutal and reckless campaign to strike fear and immigrant communities across the country they don't want to draw more attention to an out-of-control Department of Homeland Security that lets masked agents murder American citizens and tear children away from their parents they can't manage to hold a hearing about ice detention facilities that failed to meet the basic medical needs of detainees and have their highest death..."
Hearing Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026 · Transcript
DAVID BIER "Rather than fix this broken system, the new administration banned half of all the legal immigrants who had made it to the end of that process, including spouses and children of U.S. citizens. The fallout from this flawed system is left to our cities to manage. In many areas, 1 in 5 residents lives with someone here"
Hearing H. Res. 1336 – Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee...
house Rules Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA "them to do anything, to have basic human dignity and law enforcement protections like every other body does, but you will take that fraction, I can't even remember because it's such a small fraction, away from women, infant, and children's nutrition. Those are the Republican priorities, and we will raise them up all the time and point them out to you because it is outrageous, it is humane, it does not reflect values of honoring and protecting our children, our pregnant women, the infants in our care, whether they be infants in our care because they are citizens or because they are children of..."
Hearing Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the facts and the path forward.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
PADILLA, ALEX "I just feel a duty and an obligation to recognize we can't talk about the future of the United States without recognizing the impact of the pandemic and their contributions to the workforce, to our economy, and to Social Security. So Mr. Chairman, I'd like to enter into the record a report from 2024 from the Migration Policy Institute that shows that without immigrants and their U.S.-born children, so we're talking citizens here as well, the prime working age population would have shrunk by more than 8 million people between 2000 and 2025. Objection. Thank you very much. It also shows that..."
Hearing Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, focusing on tribal implications and beyond.
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026 · Transcript
TEHASSI HILL "that have manipulated a weak regulatory agency to offer nationwide online sports gambling to kids as young as 18. We view this issue from a governmental lens, so I'd like to share some historical context. In the 1970s, tribes turned to gaming as a tool to generate revenue for basic programs and services for our citizens. This was the same time that the states' governments started their lotteries to generate revenue for their citizens. Every dollar generated by Indian Gaming goes to fund health care and education for our children, housing for our elderly, and public safety and infrastructure...."
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "And I think as the Appropriations Committee, I think in this bill, we're certainly apt to do that. They're simply asking that we see them as fellow citizens, fellow Americans who deserve to be able to pour a clean glass of water for their children and for their grandchildren. Now we're not going to solve all the drinking water problems in one appropriations"
Hearing “Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America's Northern Border”
house Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript
RAMIREZ, DELIA C. "about threats at the northern border. Today's hearing is yet another attempt for my colleagues to use defending our national security in order to define a public enemy, immigrants, children, criminalize, scapegoat, and dehumanize them, sow fear and distrust, surveil and violate our rights and liberties, and then detain and brag about deporting families. When they say threats at the border, national security, and terrorists, we know why these words are specifically being used. They were used in Minnesota when two U.S. citizens were killed. It's been more than a year, and I continue to watch..."
Hearing “Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the DHS Shutdown on Americans”
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
MAGAZINER, SETH "Mr. Magaziner, for five minutes of questions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to remind everyone why we are here. Please play the video. how many United States military veterans have you deported? Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans. We are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sejoon Park. He is a United States Army combat veteran. You deported him to Korea, a country he hasn't lived in since he was seven years old. This is why we're here, because under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security has been badly mismanaged. Complete chaos. Children,..."
CRS Report
Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Certain Countries: Recent Litigation Developments
Posts · Mar 8, 2023
Certain aliens (as defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)) who otherwise are subject to removal from the United States may stay and work here when the Department of Homeland Security...
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Federal District Court Enjoins the Department of Homeland Security from Terminating Temporary Protected Status
Posts · Mar 18, 2019
Update: In February 2019, several months after this Sidebar was originally published, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the...
CRS Report
COVID-19: Federal Travel Restrictions and Quarantine Measures
Posts · May 28, 2020
In response to the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the federal government has taken several actions to deter persons with potential COVID-19 infection from entering the country....
CRS Report
Supreme Court: DACA Rescission Violated the APA
Posts · Jun 18, 2020
On June 18, 2020, in the case Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court held in a five-to-four decision that the reasoning the Department of...
CRS Report
Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 117th Congress
Reports · Oct 21, 2022
The 117th Congress has taken action on bills that address a range of immigration issues and has enacted several immigration provisions. Most of the enacted provisions are included in appropriations...
CRS Report
DACA: Litigation Status Update
Posts · Nov 14, 2018
This Legal Sidebar provides a status update for various lawsuits concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative (DACA) and the decision by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Testimony SCANLON, MARY GAY
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Without objection. That's Professor Gerard Robinson at the University of Virginia. Another one from NYU professor, Sofia Rodriguez, that dismantling Plyler would harm children of U.S. citizens and all children in U.S. schools. I also have unanimous consent to enter into the record statements from the following"
Testimony THOMAS SAENZ
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"of undocumented students did not come to the United States on their own. Finally, the court recognized, and I note here that Lewis Powell's concurrence particularly focused on what would happen if the Texas law were implemented. It would leave thousands and thousands of children on the street during the daytime rather than being in school. Well, the Plyler decision didn't explore that as deeply as it might have. The fact is that eliminating Plyler would threaten the continuance of public..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"This bipartisan bill is a targeted technical fix that will make people who are placed in the care of others, like children and senior citizens, safer. That's something we should all support. Again, I commend Mr. Moskowitz and Mr. Fry for their work on this bill. I yield back, Mr."
Testimony JONATHAN INGRAM
Hearings to examine the reality of Medicaid.
senate Budget Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"It's fraud by design. The fraud has two faces. Criminal syndicates billing from overseas and rules quietly manipulated from cubicle. But the victims are the same. American families pay their taxes, trusting Congress to spend their carefully. And the people this program was built for, senior citizens, pregnant women, children with disabilities, are left competing for resources that were stolen or diverted by bureaucrats before they ever arrived. Start with the scale. More than one in five..."
Testimony SPEAKER_42
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. R...
house Agriculture Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"We haven't spent as much time. I think maybe the temperature has come down, and we realize that the Making America Healthy Again movement, along with agriculture, do go hand in hand. And while the primary beneficiaries will be the American citizen and our children, that the—almost as important, the beneficiaries will be our great farmers and ranchers and the importance that they play in that. Of course, alongside so many of our farmers that produce great commodities that go to feed livestock..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Pol...
house Judiciary Committee · May 14, 2026
"thank you mr. chairman mr. chairman this subcommittee has hardly been busy this year clearly Republicans have no desire to conduct oversight of the Trump administration's brutal and reckless campaign to strike fear and immigrant communities across the country they don't want to draw more attention to an out-of-control Department of Homeland Security that lets masked agents murder American citizens and tear children away from their parents they can't manage to hold a hearing about ice detention..."
Testimony DAVID BIER
Hearings to examine sanctuary cities, focusing on law and order.
senate Budget Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Rather than fix this broken system, the new administration banned half of all the legal immigrants who had made it to the end of that process, including spouses and children of U.S. citizens. The fallout from this flawed system is left to our cities to manage. In many areas, 1 in 5 residents lives with someone here"
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Um, so before I answer that, I'll just say Senator Schmidt said that my statement was false regarding what executive branch officials had, uh, described the sensitive clauses requiring before president Trump's executive order. I'll just say the quotes you read are not inconsistent with what I said. No executive branch official has ever taken the position that people who are domiciled in the United States as undocumented immigrants are, that their children are not citizens. And that's not..."
Testimony LEGER FERNANDEZ, TERESA
H. Res. 1336 – Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with ...
house Rules Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"them to do anything, to have basic human dignity and law enforcement protections like every other body does, but you will take that fraction, I can't even remember because it's such a small fraction, away from women, infant, and children's nutrition. Those are the Republican priorities, and we will raise them up all the time and point them out to you because it is outrageous, it is humane, it does not reflect values of honoring and protecting our children, our pregnant women, the infants in our..."
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"ICE doubled in size. Instead of funding Americans' health care or housing or child care, Republicans poured over $210 billion, $210 billion into ICE and CBP. DHS officers killed two U.S. citizens in cold blood in Minnesota. Have we had a hearing on that? No, we haven't. They beat and detained countless U.S. citizens for exercising First Amendment rights and broke down doors without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment. ICE has imprisoned 400,000 people just in the interior of this..."
Testimony ROY, CHIP
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"people to allow somebody who's working for the Chinese Communist Party and to come here and have children and become American citizens, and then have our laws exploited like they were under the previous"
Testimony ESPAILLAT, ADRIANO
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"Well, on February, you had released a proposed rule that would alter the reading of the Housing and Community Development Act and essentially force mixed status families to choose between access to rental homes, rental assistance, and staying together as a family. In fact, if a family has a mother who's a U.S. citizen, a dad who is a legal permanent resident or undocumented, and three children that are also U.S. born citizens, American citizens, you're saying that this family could very well be..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"nearly six months later, it still hasn't happened. And the carnage continues. Earlier this month, ICE officers fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, father of three children, all of them U.S. citizens, in Houston, Texas, during an operation. The officers involved were not wearing body cameras, according to reports, leaving lots of questions about why this happened. Just days later, ICE officers fatally shot Johan Sebastian Guerrero during an operation in Maine. The officers were wearing body..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine Social Security, focusing on a discussion on the f...
senate Budget Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"I just feel a duty and an obligation to recognize we can't talk about the future of the United States without recognizing the impact of the pandemic and their contributions to the workforce, to our economy, and to Social Security. So Mr. Chairman, I'd like to enter into the record a report from 2024 from the Migration Policy Institute that shows that without immigrants and their U.S.-born children, so we're talking citizens here as well, the prime working age population would have shrunk by..."
Testimony PETER SCHWEIZER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"He had 26 children through surrogacy in the state of California. All of those children, of course, would become U.S. citizens. The Wall Street Journal about eight weeks ago had a front-page story about a Chinese billionaire who's also close to the CCP who has more than 100 children done through surrogacy in the United"
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
“Sanctuary Policies: Victims’ Perspectives”
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"The loss of a child is unimaginable and is something no parent should ever face. Mr. Chairman, Republicans want to coerce states and localities into furthering the Trump administration's extreme anti-immigrant agenda, but with masked agents murdering American citizens in the streets and tearing children away from their parents, and detention facilities that have their highest death rate in decades and fail to meet the basic medical and sanitary needs of detainees, it is no wonder that many..."
Testimony SPEAKER_25
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"Massed agents have broken into homes without warrants, locked up violent, non-violent protesters, deported sick children with cancer, killed two American citizens who were lawfully exercising their First and Second Amendment rights. Instead of going after the worst of the worst, nearly three out of four people booked into ICE custody have no criminal convictions"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"They investigate, they find out what they're doing, they know what they're doing. They're hurting our babies, our children, our American people, our American citizens. They're killing them. And yeah, we do have to keep our borders closed, and we do have to defend our borders, and those that would push those drugs on others have to be"
Testimony GARCÍA, JESÚS G. "CHUY"
H.R. 8481, the Kayleigh’s Law Act of 2026; H. J. Res. 1, Proposing an ...
house Judiciary Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"We also saw it in Chicago. Last summer, federal agents conducted a militarized raid on an apartment building in the dead of night that resulted in U.S. citizens dragged out of bed and children, some naked, zip tied and detained for hours. The Trump administration claimed the building was filled with Tren de Aragua gang members and said they captured two confirmed gang members, yet prosecutors have still not filed one single criminal charge against anyone who was arrested, nor have they revealed..."
Testimony SPEAKER_33
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"That's why I'm here, Mr. Chairman, to offer this common-sense amendment that will help tackle the cost-of-living crisis that President Trump and Republicans have created. Rather than giving billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars with no strings attached to an agency that has a long record of brutalizing communities, detaining children and pregnant mothers and even killing U.S. citizens, I believe we should be using these tax dollars to lower Americans' costs. Health care is a top expense for..."
Testimony PROFESSOR ILAN WURMAN
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"A lawful residence implies protection and a capacity to sue and be sued. In summary, it appears from the historical record that unlawfully present aliens would not have been considered or certainly may not have been considered under the protection of the sovereign and their children may not have been considered birthright subjects or citizens. Now the case from the War of 1812 also illustrates another important proposition, the connection between protection and"
Testimony PETER SCHWEIZER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"So it clearly is a vigorous one. This really began in mass around 2013, 2014. That's when it really took off. So if you do the math, you're potentially looking at anywhere from between 750,000 to 1.5 million U.S. citizens that are being raised in China because these children are born here. As soon as they are capable of flying, they are flown back to China, and that is where they will be raised."
Testimony MR. CHARLES COOPER
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"Any possible doubt about this is removed by the act's congressional history. The citizenship provision of the act was introduced by Senator Lyman Trumbull, who explained that it would make citizens of everybody born in the United States who owe allegiance to the United States, and it would exclude from citizenship the children of, quote, persons temporarily resident in the United States whom we would have no right to make citizens, end quote. The Senate debate focused mainly on the citizenship..."
Testimony THOMAS SAENZ
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"our economy, to our society, and to our government. Their ability to do so, if deprived of a basic public education, would be taken away from them. Second, court did recognize that public education is expensive, and that's the case today as well. However, despite that fact, public education is the government service that receives the highest levels of support throughout the country. Why is that? Because that expense is an investment. It is an investment that pays off. Having these children in..."
Testimony CORREA, J. LUIS
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"leave. Thank you. I'm gonna submit it also for the record. Objection. And Madam Secretary, is your department the painting detaining U. S. Citizens? No, we're not. We have. Have you taken any American citizens to your facilities to be processed? If they're children and families that. Have you detained American citizen adults? I think there have been individuals that"
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"First, it would immediately take away citizenship from 250,000 children born every year who would be born, some of them stateless, potentially deported from the country day one of their lives with no access to the rights and privileges of citizenship. And by the way, a recent Pew Research poll asked Americans whether they wanted children of immigrants, temporary immigrants, or any immigrants lawfully present in the United States to be citizens, 94% said yes. I think there's hardly anything else..."
Testimony ESPAILLAT, ADRIANO
Budget Hearing – Department of Housing and Urban Development
house Appropriations Committee · May 12, 2026
"are U S born children And during U S born children and the mother is a U S born or an American citizen What happens to a child if a family is split or they're thrown out of a home because of the status of their dad? What happens to that U.S. born child? think that that child has the right to have a roof over their head If you're"
Testimony HUNT, WESLEY
“Immigration Policy by Court Order: The Adverse Effects of Plyler v. D...
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 18, 2026
"Under zero circumstances should illegal aliens receive benefits that American families rightfully deserve. In the 1982 ruling in Plyler v. Doe declared that the 1975 Texas law denying funds to public schools that enrolled illegal aliens was unconstitutional because it caused lifetime hardships on children who are not responsible for their immigration status. But what about those legal citizens in this country that are also being overlooked, specifically in Texas, my home state? During that..."
Testimony TEHASSI HILL
Hearings to examine tracking prediction markets' exponential growth, f...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 4, 2026
"that have manipulated a weak regulatory agency to offer nationwide online sports gambling to kids as young as 18. We view this issue from a governmental lens, so I'd like to share some historical context. In the 1970s, tribes turned to gaming as a tool to generate revenue for basic programs and services for our citizens. This was the same time that the states' governments started their lotteries to generate revenue for their citizens. Every dollar generated by Indian Gaming goes to fund health..."
Testimony DURBIN, RICHARD J.
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"In 1898, the Supreme Court held that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to the children of foreigners present on U.S. soil, even if their parents are not eligible to become U.S. citizens. In 1952, Congress enshrined this holding into"
Testimony SPEAKER_08
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"And I think as the Appropriations Committee, I think in this bill, we're certainly apt to do that. They're simply asking that we see them as fellow citizens, fellow Americans who deserve to be able to pour a clean glass of water for their children and for their grandchildren. Now we're not going to solve all the drinking water problems in one appropriations"
Testimony BALINT, BECCA
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"and according to his neighbors they were outraged that agents staked out his harassed his children one of his neighbors said quote I personally don't believe that's right them four boys are American citizens Americans understand that the majority of the people here who are living and working in"
Testimony THE HONORABLE KEITH ELLISON
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"Our policies, our values, and how we vote, and it comes at a great cost. Senators, it comes at a cost of the lives of two U.S. citizens, Rene Good and Alex Pretty. It comes at the cost of shuttered businesses, Mr. Chairman, disruptions in education for tens of thousands of children, lasting harm to Minnesota's economic prosperity and social cohesion. And it comes at a cost, Mr. Chairman, to our"
Testimony RAMIREZ, DELIA C.
“Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"about threats at the northern border. Today's hearing is yet another attempt for my colleagues to use defending our national security in order to define a public enemy, immigrants, children, criminalize, scapegoat, and dehumanize them, sow fear and distrust, surveil and violate our rights and liberties, and then detain and brag about deporting families. When they say threats at the border, national security, and terrorists, we know why these words are specifically being used. They were used in..."
Testimony MS. AMANDA FROST
Hearings to examine protecting American citizenship, focusing on birth...
senate Judiciary Committee · Mar 10, 2026
"We have Senator Conness saying that the Citizenship Clause applied to children of, quote, all parentage whatever, end quote. They also, we all agree, especially distinguished children of diplomats, there would have been no need to carve out that group if, in fact, anyone who is the child of a visiting immigrant would not be a citizen. Because of that, the Supreme Court precedent stretching back 127 years has also affirmed what everyone understood at the"
Testimony JAYAPAL, PRAMILA
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Quite the opposite. This bill is doubling down on cruelty and a massive sign of disrespect to families across the country, including the many U.S. citizens and people of every immigration status who have been the targets of ICE and CBP. This bill eviscerates asylum, strips due process protections for unaccompanied kids, and allows for the indefinite detention of families and children. It is so extreme that it is not clear that it can even pass the House floor because there are some Republicans..."
Testimony KRISHNAMOORTHI, RAJA
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Secretary Nome went to our cities ostensibly under the guise of arresting, quote, the worst of the worst. But in Illinois, less than 3 percent of those arrested during Operation Midway Blitz had criminal histories. In Minnesota, the vast majority of those detained had never been in There were also more than 170 cases this year where ICE and CBP detained U.S. citizens. U.S. citizens should never be detained by ICE, correct? That is correct. I would hope we all could agree on that. Well, I hope..."
Testimony SPEAKER_42
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"pay attention to it. If you hear about children like Liam Ramos, if you saw the videos of the murders of Alex Pretty and Renee Good, if you know of workers arrested in the very restaurants where they serve federal agents their meals, if you understand that citizens and legal residents have been wrongfully detained and something in you tightens, that is not partisanship, that is conscience. In my faith tradition, we call that the still, quiet voice, the voice of"
Testimony CORREA, J. LUIS
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"as a U. S. Citizen down the street that are here and you tell people the U. S. Citizen and you're still held, return back to that is not the country you were supposed to live ma'am. Do I tell my Children to carry a U. S. Passport? No, I would not say they would have to. But they're stopped. And sometimes they take those passports. Your agents throw them out and they grab them anyway. You're terrorizing American citizens. Let's turn to another one. Okay, databases. One of your ice officers in..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security”
house Judiciary Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Secretary Nome, your job is to protect the homeland, but the most precious possession that we've got in our homeland is our freedom and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that protect it. You seem to have forgotten what our most precious possession is. The billions of dollars showered on your department have paid for violence and chaos in the American heartland and a sweeping assault on the basic rights of the American people, but the heroic citizens of Minneapolis have shown America how..."
Testimony PETERS, GARY C.
An oversight hearing.
senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · Feb 12, 2026
"today's hearing. In communities all across the country, Americans have seen on video with their own eyes as law enforcement officers from the Department of Homeland Security have tackled and beaten U.S. citizens in the streets, as they've broken windows and yanked U.S. citizens from their cars, as they've been pepper sprayed in the face at point blank, and as they have shove and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Goode and Alex Preeti, who were exercising their First Amendment rights. In Mr...."
Testimony KRISHNAMOORTHI, RAJA
“Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"Chicago was ground zero for Secretary Nome's overreach when she launched Operation Midway Blitz. Chicago media reported that ICE and CBP agents had pepper sprayed a one-year-old baby, shot at a pastor, harassed seniors, tased U.S. citizens, and even killed a person. It's clear that Midway Blitz was never intended to make Chicago safer. In December, ICE and CBP began Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. Over 3,000 agents were sent to one state. There were military style raids at child care..."
Testimony MAGAZINER, SETH
“Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the...
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Mr. Magaziner, for five minutes of questions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to remind everyone why we are here. Please play the video. how many United States military veterans have you deported? Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans. We are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sejoon Park. He is a United States Army combat veteran. You deported him to Korea, a country he hasn't lived in since he was seven years old. This is why we're here, because under the Trump..."