Children and families belong together. They do not belong in detention. They should be released, and they should be free.

We have an opportunity to save a woman's life.

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 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.

The best gift that we can give any child is a stable adult.

We have to work with them. We are not isolated.

I wanted to ask you--you referenced a self-healing and community model, which does need to be the goal ultimately...

But it has to be sustainable and I do worry about our ability to just have systems, which have often already failed people...

I have always taken issue with the term that children are resilient because I think it infers for people that they get over things.