Mary Gay Scanlon: “I thank you for your service. I thank the men and women for their service.”

We would be much better off if we were actually spending money to create a functioning immigration system.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.

It makes it difficult to … follow up on issues about food and medical care if you can’t talk to people who are impacted.

It’s inhumane. It’s traumatizing, and it’s particularly grotesque because this is then being done so private prison companies can make more profit.