Brenda Lawrence actually said...

"I find I am perplexed how we can have this Commission have--you being appointed, doing all this work, yet still what we do in our budget would just cut the legs from under this program."

"We are going to have to influence it. We are going to have to find a way to get him to make this a high priority."

"We have to do the work."

"Well, it needs to be looked at. And I can tell you in a community that's not on the southwest border that we have major issues in large immigrant communities of disparate treatment."