Elijah Cummings: “The way these children are treated does not reflect American values.”

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.

I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.