"It breaks my heart that we have an immigration system today that is broken."
"Central to any immigration reform effort needs to be a clear and fair pathway to citizenship for those who are undocumented in our country."
"DREAMERS and those who have served in the military should go to the front of the line."
"I am so proud that our community is stepping forward to help care for some of the vulnerable children arriving at the Southwest Border."
"I think what we have found is that the kids that are arriving are just like any other children that you would see in our country or anywhere else."
"I think for most folks in our community this is not a political issue; this is about helping kids, about being compassionate, about being kind."
"Last year, I met with a young girl named Vanessa from the San Carlos Apache Tribe. She talked about the importance of Oak Flat and what the sacred site means in a young woman's coming-of-age ceremony."
"Plain and simple, this is a violation of the sanctity of ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples."
"We made a decision like really early on that we thought we needed to vaccinate all groups as soon as possible."
"I always tell people too, you know, Long Beach, it’s the same size as Atlanta, Georgia, from a population perspective."
"the federal government again is completely missing from this process."
"Donald Trump has completely broken trust in government, so you have a lot of communities that would typically be much more likely to listen to the authorities, that are scared, that don't want to inte..."