"This is a personal issue for me. It gets personal when someone who you love says, 'This is who I am.'"
"The idea that my sister or anyone else could drive across State lines and either gain or lose protections is both heartbreaking and, I think, profoundly un-American."
"I urge this committee to fund these critical programs and agencies at levels appropriate to accomplish their important work."
"I trust we can all agree that, regardless of how we believe immigration policies must be reformed, fair and timely adjudication of cases is necessary."
"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."
"This hearing is a recognition and an insistence on that humanity, a recognition that the Flores decision also addressed."
"We want to know how this un-American policy got put in place in the first place and prevent it from happening again."
"I want to thank you, like the others, for your commitment to ending homelessness."
"We can do it if we just put our will and our resources toward it and if we think in very innovative ways."
"The opposite of wealth is poverty and the opposite of poverty is justice."
"Isn't it true that Judge Mike Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the Department of Justice's attempt to withhold this money was illegal and unconstitutional?"
"Isn't it also true that the court found that the Department of Justice had not produced any credible evidence that undocumented immigrants committed crime at a higher rate than any other group?"