Nanette Barragán

I think of black and brown communities and children whose asthma diagnosis amounts to nothing more than a death sentence.

There is no doubt, there is certainly not a line that stops oil from seeping into different parts of the ocean, and we have seen what happens to tourism and industries when that occurs.

We don't talk about climate change in this Committee.

I happen to believe that doing the moral thing is taking care of our planet.

The Trump administration's decision to implement a new 'zero-tolerance' policy to criminally prosecute all migrants crossing the Southwest Border... is deeply troubling.

Olivia is from El Salvador, one of the deadliest countries that is not in a war zone and she talks about how difficult it is to turn yourself in.

It is hard for some of these families, when they are fleeing violence, and they are leaving their country, they are not exactly saying, 'Let me go and look for documentation so that I can prove this is my child.'

Just because you don't get asylum doesn't mean that it is a fraud.

It makes me sick to my stomach to keep hearing over and over again, painting the broad stroke and the picture as though these are folks who are coming here to do harm.

DACA-like people are the people we need in this country. They have served this country.

We love to paint immigrants as criminals. That is not the complete facts. That is very offensive for me to see continuing to happen.

I want to introduce into the record a statement by Olivia Caseres, a mother who participated in the caravan...

What we will not do is sit idly by while President Trump tries to undermine our values as a Nation of immigrants.

I actually believe if we gave people counsel, you would see that 20 percent number increase.

As somebody who has actually represented an unaccompanied minor in an immigration proceeding, I think maybe that sends a message that we should make sure unaccompanied minors have access to counsel.

DHS must accept and process new as well as renewal DACA applications.

My records, which is the Department of Justice Immigration Court's data, states that 69 percent show up to court.

What was the percentage you said a minute ago? Was it 90 percent?

I believe NEPA is a critical tool to ensure that the voices of these communities, ones like the ones I represent in Wilmington and Compton, are heard.

I happen to represent one of those majority/minority districts, where you have about 86 percent of the population is a minority, and it is actually one of the more heavily polluted districts in the country.

Instead, we should be focusing today--and this is what I want to do--focus on some success stories that NEPA has provided us with.

Expediting reviews under NEPA, as some of my colleagues here would have us do, I believe does not address the underlying problem.

I have seen the administration put request in for more border agents, but I haven't seen a request...

I think it is great to have you come in and testify about that today so the Congress can continue to not just fully fund it, but to look for opportunities to increase as opposed to reduce those grant opportunities.

During the trip the President said that the wall would stop and I quote, "99 percent of illegal entries across the border from Mexico."