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Immigration and Children

Floor Speech

Date: June 20, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Immigration

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Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Madam Speaker, look at these young, innocent faces. I suspect many of these children are seeing the House floor for the very first time.

It is unfortunate that their first experience in this temple of democracy, the people's House, is to be here as we call our government to stop terrorizing children on the U.S.-Mexico border.

This past weekend, Madam Speaker, I traveled with Leader Pelosi and the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. What we saw there was heart-wrenching. We have heard the audio of children crying: ``Mami, papi.''

Madam Speaker, it begs the question: Has our Nation lost its way? But nothing is as heart-wrenching as seeing children's faces in person, kids who were just taken from the arms of their parents, and children in cages crying for their parents. This is child abuse.

Let's be clear, Madam Speaker, this travesty could end today. Donald Trump could end this today by a single phone call.

To my Republican friends on the other side of the aisle, I simply say this: What happened to the party of family values? History will remember this moment.

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