Thirty-three days is certainly not enough time to arrange for travel, housing, medical equipment, translating medical records or the many other steps that would be needed to transport a critically ill child to another country.

To any of them? To any of the questions that I asked.

Now that USCIS has been publicly shamed into processing the deferred action request that you had originally denied.

I don't want us to set a new precedent, because a moment ago, you said that it's been your experience that you do respond by deadline.

No drama, just hard facts. And that is that, repeatedly, people have been asked to weaponize their lived experiences and their pain...

I'll just make my request again that you respond to the letter by the deadline that we've already submitted.

whatever inconvenience you may have experienced certainly pales in comparison to the trauma and the fear and the inconvenience your medical deferred action denial letters have imposed on immigrant children and families.

The facts of this crisis, and again it is a crisis, require no exaggeration. We are past the point of just paying attention. It's time to act.

This debt is not just choking at our ability to build wealth or our purchasing power; it is quite literally choking people.

You cannot overstate $1.6 trillion in debt crushing close to 45 million borrowers. You cannot describe that as anything less than a crisis.

I just want to say I'm very disturbed as we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a meritocracy.

It's high time we act and you are rationing life-saving medication, and it seems that for far too long we've been rationing our response and our compassion and our due diligence, and so it is critical that we act, and we act in a…