Today's hearing comes at a time when incidents of hate and violence are increasing at an alarming rate.

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.

This is a personal issue for me. It gets personal when someone who you love says, 'This is who I am.'

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.

I urge this committee to fund these critical programs and agencies at levels appropriate to accomplish their important work.

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.

We can do it if we just put our will and our resources toward it and if we think in very innovative ways.

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

The opposite of wealth is poverty and the opposite of poverty is justice.