Political Quotes

“The President, as you mentioned, campaigned on the argument that there were violent criminals, and they were going be sent home who were here without documentation. What we have seen is a wholesale attack based on people's accent and the color of their skin. And in fact, if I understood a recent court decision, it has given some permission to continue targeting people because of their skin color or their accent. And the idea that as we go around America--and we are mostly a few generations removed from being immigrants--more recent immigrants are going to have accents, and we have worked toward a vision of being a race-neutral society; that people are now being allowed to be targeted by ICE because of their skin color, that just is, to me, a horrific embedment of discrimination. And I think that the President intends to pursue this aggressively for every moment that he possibly can as long as he is in office and beyond, to the degree that he can help drive future administrations.”