Mary Gay Scanlon: “May I inquire if the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko) is prepared to close. We are prepared to close.”

After not being in session for so long, one week has got everyone ready to go home.

The administration said they were going after the worst of the worst, and the people they are scooping up, and we’re seeing this increasingly are people on the way to work, or to school, or their court appointments to pursue their legal…

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.

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