Mary Gay Scanlon: “To discuss our proposal, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Pressley).”

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.

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.

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…