Wendy Sherman: “I have cringed again and again when I have seen Republicans condemn immigrants by identifying individual crimes…”

“I have cringed again and again when I have seen Republicans condemn immigrants by identifying individual crimes committed by individual immigrants. Madam Speaker, imagine how much crime is committed in this country by bald people. All those crimes would be eliminated if bald people were somehow excluded from the country. Every group has its saint and its sinners. You can turn to any group, God forbid bald people could be your choice, and identify individual criminals. What I haven't heard is somebody coming to this floor and talking about the hundreds of thousands of lives of Americans who have been saved by immigrants, immigrants who are emergency medical technicians, home healthcare workers who are the difference between life and death for those they care for, those they feed, those they help prevent from falling, from our hospitals where you may have an immigrant as a janitor, preventing the spread of biological diseases throughout the hospital, or a hospital where you have the emergency room physician who is an immigrant. Let us have a Republican come to this floor and say they don't care about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are alive today because of the lifesaving work of immigrants. Let us work toward a more sensible immigration system. We had a chance of getting there with the bipartisan bill that was being worked on in the Senate that would have brought order to our border.…”