Ayanna Pressley

So, Mr. Homan, in your expert view, can you instruct and advise me how to elevate Mariana's case and ensure that she gets the medical care she needs?

We have an opportunity to save a woman's life.

Children and families belong together. They do not belong in detention. They should be released, and they should be free.

The separation policy needs to stop and that more money toward supporting the separation policy needs to stop.

The ICE case family management program costs only $38 a day per family unit.

These families need trauma support, caseworkers, clean water, adequate and nutritious food.

This agency was never built, never designed, never trained for the care and keeping of families.

How are we sending these children into their future? How are we sending them? And another question: Would you allow this for your own child?

I have no shortage of fury for this injustice, this tragedy, this callousness.

I'm very proud to represent and to call the Massachusetts Seventh my home. It is home to--40 percent of our residents are immigrants.

The trauma we're going to create is going to be a generation that I don't think we're going to ever be able to truly address.

I cannot unsee what I've seen; I cannot unfeel what I experienced.

I believe that it is both our opportunity and obligation as Members of Congress to shed light on injustice and to lift the voices of the unheard.

But it has to be sustainable and I do worry about our ability to just have systems, which have often already failed people...

I wanted to ask you--you referenced a self-healing and community model, which does need to be the goal ultimately...

We have to work with them. We are not isolated.

It is critical that this work be survivor-led.

What we are is delayed, and these things do all show up in some way, form, or shape in our lives.

I want to talk about the criminal justice system.

We can't do them alone and so we have to be in partnership with those in our communities and it has to be community driven how these inequities play out.

There is no hierarchy of hurt, and I appreciate you are pushing for us to address this in a comprehensive way.

Hardship and trauma do not discriminate.

The best gift that we can give any child is a stable adult.

What we want to see in our school communities is a paradigm shift in culture where people will ask, what happened to you, instead of, what is wrong with you.

I have always taken issue with the term that children are resilient because I think it infers for people that they get over things.