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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security, just days after the House passed a resolution to overturn President Trump鈥檚 emergency declaration on the border wall.

Nielsen has helped Trump push lies and fabrications about the supposed security crisis at the border, when in fact the only crisis was a humanitarian one created by the administration when it decided to pursue a policy of family separation.

Nielsen played a critical role in the manufactured family separation crisis, where the government separated from their parents. The brutal policy shocked many Americans who watched in disbelief as the government and separated families, and officials under Nielsen鈥檚 purview continue to do so, as Customs and Border Protection agents still from their families at the border.

This morning, Nielsen refused to directly answer from Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) about whether she was aware of the devastating health impacts on children of the Trump administration鈥檚 family separation policy before she implemented it.

In February, Commander Jonathan White of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Congress that he had, in fact, warned Trump administration officials that implementing the family separation policy would result in 鈥渟ignificant and lifelong鈥� harm to children. That鈥檚 not all: An in September found that not only did DHS fail to property track separated parents and children, but officials also falsely claimed that it had a 鈥渃entral database鈥� that would provide information to parents.

To make matters worse, Homeland Security from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in order to sponsors and potential sponsors of children in HHS custody. From July to November 2019, ICE arrested who were undocumented.

Bizarrely, Nielsen continued to insist at the hearing that 鈥渢here is no policy of family separation,鈥� contradicting her department鈥檚 , former DHS Secretary and White House Chief of Staff , Attorney General , , and plain reality. But under questioning from Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) she did that she knew that the so-called 鈥渮ero tolerance鈥� policy would lead to the separation of children from their parents.

In January, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) that the FBI launch a perjury investigation into Nielsen after she falsely testified to Congress that the administration 鈥渘ever had a policy for family separation.鈥� This was just one of the that Nielsen has told the public about the shameful policy. Just today, Nielsen made the false claim that no parent has been deported 鈥渨ithout multiple opportunities to take their children with them,鈥� which , including hundreds of parents who that they weren鈥檛 offered a choice about being reunited with their children.

Nielsen has also by DHS, whose facilities are notorious for their substandard medical care, abusive practices, and violations of people鈥檚 constitutional rights. Detentions under her watch have escalated to such a point that the department had to from other agencies, including funds meant for disaster relief, in order to cover the costs of jailing immigrants.

Nielsen today that 鈥渟o far this year,鈥� two children have in Customs and Border Protection custody and one woman鈥檚 pregnancy ended in a stillbirth at an ICE detention facility. Earlier this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was shamed into releasing 12 babies from a detention center where they encountered 鈥�.鈥� Nielsen denied that detention facilities used cages to hold children, earning her a rebuke from Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.): 鈥淚 saw the cyclone fences that were made as cages, and you did too, all you have to do is admit it. If it鈥檚 a bad policy, then change it, but don鈥檛 mislead the committee.鈥�

Nielsen also tried to close the door on asylum seekers with a multitude of inhumane and unlawful practices. She has and has gone to great lengths to from reaching the ports, even using in at least one incident.

In a with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Nielsen tried to alter U.S. asylum policy by barring people who had entered the country in between official points of entry from applying for asylum. Nielsen, however, has continued to pursue a policy of forcing migrants to return to Mexico 鈥� in violation of U.S. and international law 鈥� while awaiting an immigration court hearing to apply for asylum protection.

While some of her policies have been blocked by the courts and requests to block others are pending, it should not fall on the courts to repeatedly correct the behavior of a lawless administration. Nielsen has failed to uphold the law and the Constitution. Instead, time and time again, she has been at the forefront of the Trump administration鈥檚 most brutal policies.

With new leadership in the House, it is more pressing than ever for lawmakers to exercise their constitutional duty to fully investigate Nielsen鈥檚 abuses and use their power of the purse to hold DHS accountable.