Summer Lee: “Mr. Chairman, thank you so very much and thank you for this hearing, I thank my colleagues, and thank Mr. Richmond as…”

Daphy Michel was a human being. She happened to be born on the other side of a border, but she was no less worthy of care, safety, and dignity. That should not have been a death sentence. Daphy's death was preventable and is the result of…

Rather than pour billions more into the agency that murdered her, we must abolish ICE and build systems rooted in equity and basic human dignity.

Daphy’s death was preventable and is the result of a violent system that cages people, surveils them, abandons them, dehumanizes them in life, and smears them in death to escape accountability.

In 2022, the New York Times reported that the 2020 Census undercounted the number of Hispanic, Black, and Native-American residents.