Ayanna Pressley

The growing youth vaping epidemic has taken the Commonwealth, which I represent, by storm.

It is clear to me, when it comes to Facebook and its initiatives, we simply cannot trust or verify.

It is long past time that we stop compromising on consumers' privacy in the pursuit of profit.

The reason we are here, and that you even have this opportunity to pursue it, is because the Federal Reserve has failed to offer Americans an equitable, reliable, efficient, safe, and secure system to access and move their money.

The reason we are here today is oversight, or more accurately, the lack of oversight in this space.

I just wanted to thank you for your commitment on the record to partner with me to do everything we can to save this Angolan detainee Mariana.

If you send equipment some place and more goods, and you send one toilet to serve 500 people, that is not sanitary.

You said there's been a lot of death. Let's stop the death.

I don't want--I'm not talking about the past, I'm talking about the present, and we have an opportunity to save a life.

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.