Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement (116th Congress)

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) described the need to protect Dreamers and TPS recipients at a hearing on the subject. His remarks, as prepared, are below:

"Today's hearing examines the critically important issue of delivering permanent protections, including a path to citizenship, for Dreamers and recipients of Temporary Protected Status, known as TPS, or a similar authority known as Deferred Enforced Departure, or DED.

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing on the National Emergencies Act of 1976, which President Trump is attempting to exploit to build a wall along the southern border:

"Thank you, Chairman Cohen. And thank you for convening this hearing on this important topic.

Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during an oversight hearing examining the Trump Administration's family separation policy, the first formal hearing held by the Committee on this disastrous policy:

"Two years into the Trump Administration's wide array of dramatic and damaging immigration policy changes, it is unbelievable that so much harm has occurred to so many people with so little congressional oversight. That ends with this new Congress.

On Tuesday February 12, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a full committee hearing to conduct oversight of the Trump Administration's family separation policy, finally holding the Administration accountable for the inhumane and callous policy that separated children from their parents at the border.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following statement ahead of the hearing:

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the leading Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, released the following statement on the Trump administration's plan to force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their immigration cases are pending:

Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement in response to a draft December 2017 memorandum released yesterday by Senator Jeff Merkley, which was created by senior officials at the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice outlining the Trump Administration's child separation policy:

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Inspector General's report that found that thousands more immigrant children were separated from their parents than previously reported, and that the question of whether they have been reunified with their parents is still unknown: