Immigrant Neighbors

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Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to denounce the terror campaign this administration has launched against our immigrant neighbors.

At the direction of the Trump White House, masked Federal agents are ripping children away from their parents' arms. They are pepper spraying moms in parking lots. They are pulling childcare workers from classrooms in front of desperate toddlers.

This is unacceptable.

The world is watching as the United States Government violates the rights and due process of our neighbors. Families are frantically trying to locate their loved ones who have been hauled away to detention centers, for-profit makeshift prisons, prisons where meals are inedible and medical care is denied, prisons where women are denied cancer treatment and endure miscarriages while their screams are ignored.

Mr. Speaker, this situation is desperate and it is not the result of a natural disaster or an act of God. Instead, it is the direct action of a narcissistic, cruel dictator who occupies the Oval Office who has contempt for every person that calls this country home.

None of us is free until all of us are free. No one is truly safe in Donald Trump's America.

For our immigrant families, they belong here, and I will not stop fighting for them, their rights, and their dignity.

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