"I am here today to address the subcommittee about our city's support of what is really a humanitarian mission."
"I am so proud that our community is stepping forward to help care for some of the vulnerable children arriving at the Southwest Border."
"I strongly support comprehensive immigration reform and lead a community that welcomes immigrants."
"I think what we have found is that the kids that are arriving are just like any other children that you would see in our country or anywhere else."
"Plain and simple, this is a violation of the sanctity of ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples."
"Last year, I met with a young girl named Vanessa from the San Carlos Apache Tribe. She talked about the importance of Oak Flat and what the sacred site means in a young woman's coming-of-age ceremony."
"I always tell people too, you know, Long Beach, it’s the same size as Atlanta, Georgia, from a population perspective."
"We made a decision like really early on that we thought we needed to vaccinate all groups as soon as possible."
"we're having 9/11-like events every single day."
"Donald Trump has completely broken trust in government, so you have a lot of communities that would typically be much more likely to listen to the authorities, that are scared, that don't want to inte..."
"the federal government again is completely missing from this process."