These families need trauma support, caseworkers, clean water, adequate and nutritious food.
Ayanna Pressley
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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.
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?
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.
If you send equipment some place and more goods, and you send one toilet to serve 500 people, that is not sanitary.
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 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.
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.
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?





