When we were at these facilities, one of the things that I had noticed was that there were these tents in the back with--I mean, they looked like cages, and I know that a lot of the migrants, they call the cold rooms 'hieleras,' and they call these pens 'perreras,' dog pounds.
Describing the conditions of migrant facilities she visited.
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What he wants to do is create—or rather, not even create, because it’s already been created—but protect a class of impunity in America that says, 'You can commit whatever crime, and so long as you pay a check to us, we will protect you.'
You can’t tell them to get out and then, in a presidential cycle, tell them that they have an obligation to vote for you. We’re either a team or we’re not.
What we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
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