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On the recordJune 27, 2019
I take offense to my colleague from Arizona saying we are not going to win. This is not a game. These are people's lives. When my colleague says we need to try, we have tried. I am asking them to try harder because we are creating a whole generation of children, Madam Speaker, who will remember what we did. They will remember that we caged them up like animals. We ripped them away from their parents and pumped them with drugs to make them stop crying for their mothers. No amount of apologizing and no amount of debating in this Chamber will make it better, Madam Speaker. I am asking my colleagues to be more humane, to debate real policy change that will address the crisis at the border, like comprehensive immigration reform. We must do better for these children. Again, no amount of apologizing, no amount of debating, no amount of politicking will make it better.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

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