Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Senator Merkley ultimately utilized much of my memo in a report on the destruction of the asylum program."

"The President wants this as a political issue. He's not about to start solving the problem."

"The administration is conducting its immigration policy and strategy that traumatizes children without careful planning and perhaps with a lot of callousness perhaps incompetence and possibly both."

"Can you imagine the terror you have as a child? Your parents are suddenly gone and you don't have a place to go home to? What does it mean for your life?"