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

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

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

This is not about your answering just to this committee. You're answering to the American people.

It does seem we're missing each other here and, you know, I'm----

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.

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

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

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

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.