Dick Durbin: “This is the first Congressional hearing to focus specifically on U.S. rule of law assistance to foreign drug enforcement…”

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.

Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.

You can’t survive in politics unless you’re optimistic. You’ve got to believe that even though you face a setback or you don’t have all the laws you need, that tomorrow will be better.