Dick Durbin: “I hope you will fill me in on how that is consistent with protecting privacy.”

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.

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.

The lack of community involvement and speed with which this project has moved forward raises questions about the role of private interests.

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