A Democratic senator on Tuesday attempted to make several Trump administration officials raise their hands when asked whether they believed President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy "has been a success.”

"Let me ask this panel, who here thinks that zero tolerance has been a success?" Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked a panel during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, in a video shared widely on social media. "You can just raise your hand if you think it's been a success."

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The panel, which included Commander Jonathan White of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Border Patrol acting Chief Carla Provost and Matthew Albence, executive associate director of the Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, did not raise their hands.

Blumenthal went on to ask several similar questions.

“Who thinks that the family separation policy has been a success? Raise your hand," Blumenthal asked.

“Who here can tell me who is responsible, which public official, which member of this administration, is responsible for zero tolerance and family separations?” he went on.

"Can anyone tell me?” he continued. “Who is responsible? Nobody knows?”

White later said in the hearing that he did not believe officials from the Department of Health and Human Services knew the policy would lead to the migrant family separations, and he warned against the practice.

"I was advised that there was no policy which would result in separation of children from family units," White said. "Separation of children from their parents entails significant risk of harm to children."

The hearing comes amid backlash to the Trump administration’s since-ended zero tolerance policy, which led to the separations of hundreds of migrant families.

A court previously ordered the government to reunite the migrant families by last Thursday, and the government said all eligible families were reunited. However, hundreds of children remain separated from their parents.