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What we saw today was a facility that is providing care that every American would be proud of.

We will continue to provide the level of care the American people expect and we will do with compassion, and with generosity, but ultimately, we have got to demands that Congress takes the next step, reform these asylum laws, close the…

Congress has got to act to make it for us to reduce the numbers of people coming into our country illegally, and that's going to require us to change the loopholes for former asylum laws.

But as you saw firsthand today, here at McAllen station where our cells are overflowing and now the temporary facility that you just saw had to be established and then the first facility that we saw where nearly 1,000 families with…

No, it's not, and it's the reason why we demanded that Congress provide $4.6 billion in additional support to Customs and Border Protection.

We need comprehensive, coordinated, ambitious national action. And it's why I believe the Douglass Plan, something that is as ambitious in scope as the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe is called for.

I'm not staking my candidacy on the idea that we've resolved racial injustice in my city during my time as mayor. This is a problem that was there when I arrived.

This is an effort to address systemic racism in our country. And we've been developing this for months.

The idea on Sunday of working to strike fear in the hearts of communities, you know, the same Sunday when a lot of Americans are going to be gathering in churches to hear messages about our responsibility to welcome the stranger, shows you…

As president, our enforcement priority would be on public safety, and we would also be working to establish a pathway to citizenship so that people with these issues could get them cleared up.

Well, it sounds like a face-saving way to recognize that he's been on the wrong side of the law throughout. There are many number of ways to do research on issues like immigration, but tinkering with the census was clearly racially and…

We hope you will agree that the response of the Department of Transportation--to do nothing, after three years of silence--is unacceptable.

I'm not going to present myself as the person who is going to resolve racial tension or racial inequality in this country, that's not the story I'm telling.

I'm sick of these things being talked about in political terms, in theoretical terms. I think it's a show, sometimes. It's people's lives.

Because I couldn't get it done. My community is in anguish right now because of an officer-involved shooting, a black man, Eric Logan, killed by a white officer.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL PROVISION Sec…

It is stunning that we have not had a hearing since 2015.

The most important thing isn't how many exercised that choice to be union members or nonmembers, but the fact they have that choice.