Senator Claire McCaskill's video: McCaskill Continues Bipartisan Work to Keep Unaccompanied Children Safe

Continuing her longstanding bipartisan work to ensure unaccompanied immigrant children are properly accounted for and kept safe as they go through the immigration process, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today sharply questioned Administration officials after a bipartisan Senate report found a lack of progress. The bipartisan report detailed the lack of progress from the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Homeland Security in improving programs designed to care for unaccompanied immigrant children to ensure their safety and that they appear at their immigration court proceedings. “I’ve had some experience in children that have been removed from their families in my years as an assistant prosecutor handling criminal cases, and then as years as the elected prosecutor in Kansas City—I can assure you, if a child was removed from their family and, six months later, it was determined that no one was paying attention to where that child was, literally no one, it would be a huge scandal in my state,” said McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “It would be a scandal in all of our states—and I can’t tell you, this is about the fourth or fifth time I’ve been on this dais, and no one seems to be worried about the fact that you all get to wash your hands of these children.”