Mary Gay Scanlon: “I think I have one more speaker. I am finding the argument a little bit hard to follow for my colleagues across the…”

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…

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

Why are we jailing, essentially, people who are not a danger to our communities, who are in many cases contributing members to our economy and our communities, folks who are employed and are paying taxes? Why are these folks being put in a…

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