Summer Lee

I appreciate your response.

You are already harmed. You are already harmed.

The Congress didn't write the Muslim ban.

Do you see the wrongness or the deterrent effect? When I say deterrent effect, the destructive impact on human beings through this Muslim ban?

Do you think that is the role of immigration laws, to rule out the opportunity for innocent persons to create a potential of a baby dying?

What kind of fear ran over you?

The Muslim ban has separated families.

The latest iteration of this ban, I note, it seems that it says that it is indefinite.

More powerfully, the testimony of the two witnesses adds to the overwhelming danger and the overwhelming disaster that has been created by a blanket Muslim ban.

You think it might have put the visitors in fear who had legitimate documents?

I thank all of you as public servants for the work that you do even though the policies which you are here for have and I believe have no grounding in reality and opposing a difficult posture.

The ban caused his fear.

I beg to differ with you for Mohammad Abu Khadra, a 16-year-old Jordanian who had lived in the United States with his brother who had a green card.

As noted by the inspector general of DHS, there was widespread confusion at the Nation's airport, pandemonium within the Administration noting that the agencies charged with implementing the ban were largely caught by surprise.

The moment, I think, has come to study and look at what reparations mean.

I actually think that a wealth tax is very important because it would hit white families much more than families of color.

We cannot talk about income inequality without talking about racial inequality.

Loan forgiveness programs, let us be clear, were intended to encourage people to enter public service.

We have a student debt crisis in this country.

Earlier this year, as the Chair Bonamici talked about, we passed a bipartisan, again POWADA, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.

Chair Dhillon, as you said earlier, age discrimination charges are about 20 percent of the charges the EEOC receives.

Listen, earlier this week this Committee in a bipartisan manner passed the Older Americans Act, which provides critical nutrition, legal, and transportation services for older Americans.

I hope that we will pass H.R. 40, the Commission to Study Reparations, so we can address the systemic issue and the impact of slavery.

We need to pass the End Racial Profiling among other very important legislative initiatives.

Do you believe that law enforcement, however, should not engage in racial profiling?