GOP rep: Phone number for HHS conference call on family reunifications didn’t work

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said Tuesday that he is concerned about the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department’s ability to reunite immigrant families that were separated at the border.

Hurd said on CNN’s “New Day” that the process of reuniting the migrant children with their parents isn’t going as quickly as he had hoped.

“I think one of the concerns I have is HHS’s ability to do this,” Hurd said of reuniting the families. “We were supposed to have a conference call yesterday with members of Congress and their staff to talk about this process and the phone number didn’t work.”

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“So if they can’t do that with us I’m concerned with the ability of connecting kids,” he added.

GOP Rep. @HurdOnTheHill says he’s concerned about HHS’s ability to reunite separated migrant children with their parents: “We were supposed to have a conference call yesterday … to talk about this process and the phone number didn’t work” https://t.co/zmh23SccDX pic.twitter.com/8r9KsRJE6R

— New Day (@NewDay) June 26, 2018

The Trump administration is currently working to reunite immigrant families who were separated at the border under its past policy. President Trump signed an executive order last week to end the family separations amid overwhelming criticism.

The Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend that it knew the location of all of the migrant children separated from their families. About 2,300 children were separated in the process.