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Dick Durbin

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Richard Durbin, commonly known as Dick Durbin, is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he has held various leadership roles, including Senate Majority Whip. Durbin has been a prominent advocate for issues such as healthcare reform, immigration policy, and gun control. He has also played a significant role in negotiations on budget and appropriations matters in the Senate.

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Aug 4, 2026

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has supercharged Trump’s mass deportation campaign, with devastating consequences for Temporary Protected Status holders, and the American communities who rely on them.

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Aug 4, 2026

Given the reported imminent expansion of family detention, and the mounting toll of detention on children and families detained at Dilley, I believe a Committee hearing is warranted.

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Aug 4, 2026

Today, I am releasing a fact sheet documenting findings and observations from my staff’s visit to Dilley…

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Aug 3, 2026

But amid this shift, Ukraine desperately needs more air defenses to protect civilians from brutal Russian attacks.

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Aug 2, 2026

My staff visited Dilley as part of an ongoing investigation into medical and mental health care, solitary confinement, and access to counsel in immigration detention. During that visit, in an attempt to curtail oversight, DHS imposed an…

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Aug 1, 2026

President Trump needs to send the $400 million funds immediately as it’s desperately needed to stop the Russian advances.

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Aug 1, 2026

The Trump Administration is intentionally subjecting longtime law-abiding residents of our communities and children who have grown up in our communities to neglectful and dangerous detention conditions.

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Aug 1, 2026

Medical care in immigration detention is dangerously inadequate. Immigration detention facility staff routinely deny or defer necessary medical treatment, providing only minimal care until emergency care is required.

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Aug 1, 2026

Poor medical care was the most urgent concern raised by both families and adult women. They described a range of unaddressed health issues and voiced that, because they were not receiving adequate care, those medical conditions are…

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Aug 1, 2026

Children and their parents described a top-down culture of cruelty among Dilley staff, including guards deliberately disrupting children’s sleep at night, purposely entering rooms without knocking, and taunting children who are often…

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Aug 1, 2026

This kind of personal targeting of judges is unacceptable – from Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives.

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Jul 31, 2026

The second thing I would loathe to consider: if Social Security ends up with their trust fund diverted into crypto investments, which could crash and burn, 70 million Americans will pay a price that is just too heavy to pay.

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Jul 31, 2026

This Administration has one goal—make conditions in detention so terrible, so notorious that immigrants will choose to leave, no matter what their legal status might be.

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Jul 31, 2026

It is unacceptable that these stronger safeguards were not pursued until after a serious illness brought renewed attention to the problem.

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Jul 30, 2026

Dr. Fauci is a deeply caring physician, a brilliant scientist, an extraordinary public servant, a humanitarian, & a patriot—whose work has helped save tens of millions of lives.

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Jul 29, 2026

If you’re talking about air defenses and the momentum alongside Zelenskyy, what impact will it have if we can’t fund this for three years?

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Jul 29, 2026

“GSA’s denigration of the judiciary and degradation of court facilities is unacceptable,”

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Jul 29, 2026

It is also overdue for this chamber to act on Russia and Ukraine legislation, which Lindsey Graham was passionate about…

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Jul 29, 2026

Ukraine still has not received the $400 million that we appropriated in the last year’s appropriations bill.

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Jul 29, 2026

The war in Ukraine has turned a corner, with the real possibility for the first time in over four years that Russia will be finally forced to negotiate.

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Jul 29, 2026

Make no mistake, Iran is a troubling actor that has for decades threatened America and allied interests.

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Jul 29, 2026

Now the White House is coming to Congress with an $88 billion supplemental request…

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Jul 29, 2026

I asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to give us the latest accounting of the financial cost of this war.

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Jul 29, 2026

I welcome the Chinese government’s release of Pastor Jin and call on them to release the remaining eight members of his church as well as the following mentioned in our Senate resolution: Dr. Gulshan Abbas, Jimmy Lai, Gao Quanfu and his…

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Jul 29, 2026

In our meeting, Pastor Jin told me that the prison conditions were very stark—while in jail in China, he was cut off from any communication with his family, and his lawyers were harassed and threatened as well.

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