"Words we use to address the threat to our Nation do matter. They hold power."
"Generation after generation, our families have been coming to this country, crossing the ocean or the border."
"This country would fall apart without immigrants. One day without immigrants, you don't eat."
"Work permits, immigration reform, and the adequate visas so that people don't have to come here illegally, these are all solutions."
"No child should die in the water or be separated from their family, citizen or non-citizen."
"this crisis was made by years of inaction from politicians on both sides of the aisle."
"If the border is open, which we continue to hear over and over and over again, then why is it that people are drowning in the Rio Grande?"
"What I would say is that if we are truly serious about addressing this crisis, folks, we have got to start talking about immigration reform."
"We have to make sure that these children that are no longer children are cared for."
"It is so disappointing to me to see some of my Republican colleagues talk about protecting women and children and then support cruel policies such as H.R. 2, the Child Deportation Act."
"We should not stand for this blatant power play, nor allow it to be used as leverage to threaten our country with a Republican government shutdown."
"Today's hearing should be shedding light on the pressing issues surrounding immigration policies, what is causing migration, and how do we make sure the children we talk about, the children that I act..."