Alex Padilla: “Eventually that comes to a question of budget and resources, in which this Committee and the Senate and the Congress as…”

The nation’s 1.2 million nursing home residents face unique problems in obtaining access to the voting booth, and must not be denied their rights because they are disabled, elderly, lack transit, or face difficulties in obtaining a ballot…

Congress has, on a bipartisan basis, made clear that unaccompanied children should not be forced to represent themselves in immigration court…

For these reasons and our deep concern regarding the treatment and protection of unaccompanied children, we call for an independent, timely, transparent, and public investigation at both the state and federal level into this award.

Despite these statutory protections, ORR has nevertheless taken drastic steps to gut legal representation for children.