"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 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."
"I cannot unsee what I've seen; I cannot unfeel what I experienced."
"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."
"I have no shortage of fury for this injustice, this tragedy, this callousness."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"Children and families belong together. They do not belong in detention. They should be released, and they should be free."