Mary Scanlon actually said...

"I urge this committee to fund these critical programs and agencies at levels appropriate to accomplish their important work."

"This hearing is a recognition and an insistence on that humanity, a recognition that the Flores decision also addressed."

"When the issue is framed as an invasion by aliens and when we refer to children as UACs, it is easier to pretend they are not human or worthy of compassion."

"We want to know how this un-American policy got put in place in the first place and prevent it from happening again."