Dick Durbin: “America is a Nation of immigrants.”

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

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.

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

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.