"Anyone in the custody of our government, especially a child, must be treated humanely and with respect."
"Children should not be separated from their mothers or fathers unless there is a true need for it."
"Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see."
"We've seen severe overcrowding in Border Patrol processing centers that is so inhumane that the DHS Office of the Inspector General described it as dangerous because it represents an immediate risk to..."
"These policies have created the humanitarian crisis and a moral one."
"This is not about resources. And to prove it, one only needs to look at what El Paso, Texas, has done without any."
"This is a manufactured crisis because cruelty--because the cruelty is manufactured."
"It is unnecessary to separate children from their families."
"There is no need for us to arrest innocent people and treat them no differently than criminals."
"We cannot allow for this."
"We need policy change."
"So we, as members of the United Nations, signed on into an international human rights agreement, saying very clearly that family separation is a violation of international human rights, and then we pu..."