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.

Mr. Chair, just 2 weeks ago in my district, six lives and six families were forever changed by gun violence in a 6-day period. Four people were killed and two were injured in six different shootings. One person was 28. The other five were…

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

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.

Madam Speaker, my vote did not record. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 80. ____________________

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.

I want to thank you, like the others, for your commitment to ending homelessness.

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?

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?