Political Quotes

“I want to tell you about a second grader named Diana Crespo-Gonzalez. She loves to draw, and she loves school. On January 16, she was sick. She had a persistent fever, her nose wouldn't stop bleeding, and her parents did what any good parents would do. They took their child to see a doctor. They never made it inside. Instead, immigration agents surrounded their car. The parents pleaded with the agents to just let their daughter get seen. Think about that for a second, Mr. Speaker. Put yourself in their car, wondering if you made a mistake by taking your child to a doctor. Shortly after, Diana and her parents were detained and transported 2,000 miles from their home in Gresham, Oregon, to the Dilley child family detention facility in Texas, the largest child detention facility in the United States. I will say that again: the largest child detention facility in the United States. That is a sentence that should not exist. The conditions at Dilley are not just bad; they are indefensible and inhumane. The food is inedible.”