These children should not be in adult prisons, and our legislation will help with that, especially when you are talking about at-risk youth, many times needing mental or drug rehabilitation, not prison.
Emphasizes the need for youth rehabilitation over incarceration.
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These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.
Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.
Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.
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.
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