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Senate subcommittee hearing spotlights clash over immigration enforcement and community safety
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A Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing featured emotional testimony from victims' families and conflicting expert accounts over whether current ICE tactics focus on violent criminals or sweep up nonviolent immigrants; lawmakers debated quotas, vetting of unaccompanied minors and community trust.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration convened to debate whether U.S. immigration enforcement is protecting communities or needlessly sweeping up nonviolent migrants, with family members of victims urging tougher vetting and witnesses and Democrats warning against quota-driven raids.
Chairman John Cornyn opened the hearing saying its purpose was to "examine the devastation that criminal aliens have caused in communities across The United States," and he repeated agency figures about people with final orders of removal, arguing many remain at large. Cornyn also said he plans to introduce legislation that would require Health and Human Services to conduct mandatory checks on unaccompanied minors and bar criminal-alien sponsors from custody.
Ranking Member Alex Padilla offered a…
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