In the interests of transparency and cooperation, the department felt it necessary in our filings on Friday to share with the court our view that meeting the deadline would mean truncating the process we might have otherwise followed. Evelyn Stauffer More Quotes by Evelyn Stauffer More Quotes From Evelyn Stauffer This is a direct result of the unprecedented number of arriving children. Evelyn Stauffer us-news Later that day the minor was transferred to a children's hospital in Texas and was treated for several days in the hospital's intensive care unit. Evelyn Stauffer top-news The number of families and unaccompanied alien children apprehended are a symptom of the larger problem, namely a broken immigration system, their ages and the hazardous journey they take make unaccompanied alien children vulnerable to human trafficking, exploitation and abuse. That is why HHS joins the President in calling on Congress to reform this broken system. Evelyn Stauffer politics The department has been operating in good faith and earnestly trying to comply with court orders, including the rapidly approaching deadline for reunification, our interpretation of the court's order is that HHS must make a determination of parentage, fitness, and safety before reunifying families, but that HHS need not undertake the fuller process of vetting for children's safety that HHS would ordinarily conduct in its operations. Evelyn Stauffer top-news