Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.

Seeking asylum is legal.

Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents?

Children should not be separated from their mothers or fathers unless there is a true need for it.

Anyone in the custody of our government, especially a child, must be treated humanely and with respect.

It is unnecessary to separate children from their families.

This is a manufactured crisis because cruelty--because the cruelty is manufactured.

This is not about resources. And to prove it, one only needs to look at what El Paso, Texas, has done without any.

We need policy change.

We cannot allow for this.

There is no need for us to arrest innocent people and treat them no differently than criminals.

I think there is a reason for that, not only due to the expertise and the courage of our witnesses but thanks to the tireless work of our chairman and the work of Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.

The health of our children is reflection of the health of our Nation

I just want to commend her and to commend our chairman for having the foresight.

This is our first hearing on childhood trauma in the history of the Oversight Committee.

Is that fair to say?

Disgusting subhuman s--- unworthy of being kindling for a fire.

Floaters were so clean.

At least it's already in a trash bag.

This right here is a complete, complete condemnation of the for-profit healthcare insurance industry

I have been there, too. I was uninsured less than a year ago.

So people are not getting insurance in these states for political reasons. That is your testimony?

We don't even know how many of these women--there's no requirement to even acknowledge, count, or record a woman who is pregnant in custody.

So the answer is not let's deprive people of due process.

In the 10 years prior to that, there were no similar deaths, zero, of migrant children in U.S. custody.