Political Quotes

“it is difficult to believe that it is happening, but I have seen it. It was about 5 weeks ago that I was in El Paso, TX. I went down to see what has happening on the border. You can't escape all the stories that have been written about the number of people who are coming to our border and what is happening to them, so I wanted to see it for myself. I saw what was a detention facility for people who had been stopped at the border. There was a cell with a plate glass window, so that you could see everything inside. Above the door of the cell, it said, ``capacity 35.'' I looked inside and counted--took the time to slowly count--and I counted 150 men in that cell, standing shoulder to shoulder. Few of them could sit on the benches on the side of the walls--150. There was one toilet in that cell. They were fed their meals to eat standing up. They slept taking turns lying down on the floor. Some of them would be there for 3 days and some as long as 6 weeks. Next to that cell was another one with a plate glass window; you could see inside. Above the door, it read, ``capacity 16.'' This was a cell for women. I counted 75 women in that cell--``capacity 16.'' There were four or five of them with nursing babies. I have since learned, in the few weeks since I saw this and witnessed it firsthand, things have gotten dramatically worse. The cell with 150 now has almost 200 men jammed into it. The cell with the women is even worse than what I saw when I visited.…”