Delia Ramirez

If you remember nothing else today, what I want everyone in this committee room to know - what I want every American to know--is the physical and mental toll that the lack of permanent housing has our veterans.

Let me repeat that, our veterans have rightfully earned their GI Bill benefits, and they should rightfully be restored when bad actors have targeted our vets to make a profit off of them.

Our veterans have rightfully earned their GI Bill benefits.

It is up to us, all of us in the room today, to ensure that every single student veteran receives the assistance they need so that no one gets left behind.

We have got to do research before we start joining organizations, because if we are going to be fighting violence against women and we are joining organizations that incite violence, that is inconsistent with who we say we are.

It is clear that the replacement theory and other white supremacist ideas are leading to an increase in violence targeted toward black and brown people and immigrants specifically.

I hope to see your Department and the administration lead with humanity.

I commend the Biden administration for launching a national strategy for countering domestic extremism.

We must take this problem of child exploitation seriously, but we cannot do it at the expense of our children.

Any duration of detention is harmful. It is inhumane and it is unacceptable.

I am concerned that the Department of Homeland Security is considering reviving family detention.

I want to be clear. The administration can do a better job of protecting migrant children.

What we should be talking about today is cybersecurity attacks. What we should be talking today about is funding that addresses natural disasters.

What we should be discussing today is when is Congress going to pass a law to increase access to legal representation for individuals, making sure families are kept together, and providing a pathway to citizenship for dreamers and TPS…

My colleagues to the right only care about the border because they want to care the narrative that asylum seekers and refugees are illegals, they are an invasion, when we know this is really about a denial of human rights and our…

Cutting money for law enforcement, it seems to be part of their so-called budget plan. So if you want better border, you have got to support their efforts.

I have heard a member, a Republican member, talk about immigrants as an infestation and another one call it an invasion.

Congressional Democrats understand the complex reasons that immigrants seek to come to the United States and are prepared to work with Republicans.

The United States of America has a responsibility to keep our promise to those like Mr. Safi, who bravely helped American soldiers.

The Republican narrative that immigrants are bringing fentanyl into the United States while seeking asylum is flat wrong.

We have to stop criminalizing people and we have to get to the root cause of the problems.

If it weren't because she crossed the border, escaping poverty, nearly dying, escaping rape, and all the things that she experienced, this woman here wouldn't be the first Latina in the Midwest in Congress.

I strongly support protecting and expanding Social Security.

We need humane, comprehensive immigration reform, and we need it now.

Every time our undocumented community is referred to as illegals and criminals, it shows how my Republican colleagues choose to recognize or not recognize someone's basic humanity.