barragan: early next year.gunman shot and killed a tsa officer at los angeles international airport, my home airport. gunman shot and killed five people at fort lauderdale international airport. in the aftermath of the shootings, dhs and tsa called for airports to create unified operation centers to coordinate emergency response and improve your caps -- improve communications. tsaection 1987 of the modernization act requires tsa to provide a framework for establishing such centers. this language came from my bill, the strengthening transportation security local cabability act. what is the status of this effort, and what resources has tsa provided to airports? maybe you can shed light on how many airports have created these unified operation centers. ms. cogswell: we have issued those guidelines. we are staffing full-time at 12 unified operation centers and have another 4 that are staffed intermittently depending on the various exercises or response activities underway at those locations. we are working across t

miss nanette barragan, asked about the working group. was it full of members as well? when was it constituted? >> it went to the shut down, and went through full meetings to the end of august. >> so the report that you will make it something that has, is that consensus between the union and the agency in regard to these tso's? >> we are excited to see. that the national deployment force that is the short term deployment force, whether it's seasonal or issue related soon to ensure there are at the screening resources. it was caught a violent sex in 1988 of the tsa modernization act. actually based on my bill, the national deployment fourth act. it was deployed to larger airports like seattle, and denver, where tsa did not mean it's hiring goals, and two airports in hawaii, where tsa has a difficult time attracting candidates. what steps are you taking to hire permanent tso's at those challenging airports? >> thank you for the authorization, they provided critical assets, but in response to a wide range of various needs across the tsa, and this is critically important fo

barragan now? >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. cogswell, you mentioned in your opening remarks some progress done on service transportation security. the act -- the modernization act pushes tsa to monitor way for transportation security and under sections 1901 of the act, the tsa is required the assessment of advanced security technologies into surface transportation systems and increasing vetting and identifying verification of the surface transportation passengers. the assessment was due to congress by april 3, 2019, but it's not yet been produced. can you tell us why that's the case and whether there has been an impact on the staffing that has impacted this deadline? >> thank you very much. as was noted also in my testimony we stood up the surface transportation security advisory committee. we have also done a significant outreach effort across the country to engage with the various stakeholders involved in this process to identify where some of their highest interests and needs are, to ensure that as we developed various ideas

barragan. ms. barragan: i thank the having this special hour and for all his work. as the supreme court deliberates this administration's attempt to end the daca program, it's easy to see average american the term daca as a case or a set of immigration statistics or political daca is g chip, but 700,000 living, breathing people to be their america home. the only home most of them have had. of over 8,000 of these daca members live in my district, and amongst my most valued and vulnerable constituents. hey are our brothers, our sisters, our friends, and schoolmates, our neighbors, and workmates. and in my instance, my cousin. case, they are also dedicated and talented interns working in both my district here in my ight washington office. irene garcia is a daca recipient has lived in the united states since she was 10 years old. she's earning her bachelors cal state-domingas hill. part-time barista and she's working hard in my san edro office, even as a young girl, irene dreamed of working in our government. sadly, she worries that interning for me might be as ever com

. >> the chair recognizes the gentle lady from california, miss barragan for five minutes. >> we haveeen an expansion of human rights abuses under this administration simply named migrant protection protocols or the remain in mexico policy. the name almost assumes that this program will actually protect migrants when it does the complete opposite. instead of allowing asylum seekers to remain safely in the u.s. as they wait for their cases to be heard, as has been done by law under the u.s. refugee act, you have forced nearly 50,000 asylum seekers, including vulnerable individuals like those with serious medical conditions, pregnant women, lgbtq people to wait in areas plagued by violence like the state of tamalpias, mexico, which is a level 4 threat. this is the same warning that countries like afghanistan, iraq, syria and north korea have. i'm going to say this again. we are sending people, pregnant women back to dangerous places in mexico that have a level 4 threat that's equivalent of afghanistan, iraq, syria and north korea. before you decided to return families with children and

barragan. the congresswoman from texas, ms. so critical so that american public understands what is happening at the hands of the american government and thank you for allowing know opportunity to -- to address our panel and ask questions and thank you for coming to the border and coming to el paso, you and many of your distinguished colleagues are distinguished colleagues have made the journey so that you can see for yourself what is happening through your own eyes in order to help change what is an important policy, to panelists, thank you so much for being here today, i cannot tell you how profoundly moving your testimony was earlier and i can't imagine anyone listening to your testimony, listening to what is happening at the hands of the american government and believing that this policy, antiamerican deeply harmful policy, i know full well about mpp because i represent el paso, texas and our advocates, our community members have unfortunately have to bear witness to what is happening at the hands of the american government

. >> the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california, miss barragan. >> let me start by echoing the comments from my colleagues about the outrage that should be happening on the return of migrants in dangerous places. i understand you have visited some of these facilities out of the 6 locations. two of them are across from an area of mexico the state department has designated as a level for do not travel location. i understand you have been there. describe the danger of violence and crime near ports of entry at risk of being subjected to. >> the last cities that get rollout, told us she was horrified when she heard people would be removed - i don't work there personally but advocates on the ground told me people walked out of mexican migration and on the doorstep of mexican migration offices. individuals in the early days were moved before they decided to have tent courts which is an hour away. there are people today who are terrified to make that our journey south to their court hearings. they had so many stories of people being kidnapped out of the door of a shelter. they have