Janice Schakowsky: “I am really so proud and grateful to join you, Congressman Garcia. We are both from Illinois, and we see some of the…”

“I am really so proud and grateful to join you, Congressman Garcia. We are both from Illinois, and we see some of the same examples of the fear that is plaguing our communities wherever there are immigrants. And I want to tell you, I take this issue very personally. Neither of my parents were born in the United States of America, but they came here as small children with their parents, who made a really good life. My grandfather had a horse and wagon and actually sold vegetables in Humboldt Park, part of your district right now, carrying heavy bags of potatoes up and down the stairs. Four children, and they all went to college. They made a good life, and now his granddaughter is in the United States Congress. Well, I will tell you, my grandparents, my parents did not live with the fear that this President has brought to millions and millions of people and, of course, people in our district. I want to just tell you that exactly 1 week ago today, I flew home, landed at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, and heard that something was happening over at the international terminal, that there was now a crowd of people and there were children ages, I think it was 16, 10, and 9, minors, who were being held at the airport. These were citizen children. Why were they being held there? They came from Mexico. They had been there on vacation.…”