Dick Durbin: “Would you explain to those who are not familiar with it what happens if we do nothing.”

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.

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.

We ask that you immediately provide all committee records that you have withheld, commit to fully complying with Senate Rules XXVI and XXVII going forward, and apologize to Mr. Smith on behalf of the Committee.

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