I see this as a test of our liberal values. Can our system... treat the individual, regardless of race or creed, as one with equal rights and opportunity.
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Emphasizing the importance of liberal values in addressing migration.
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To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.
Because it ignores the fundamental reality that our country has been made stronger, more vibrant, more dynamic, more powerful because of the arrival of immigrants, and refugees, and asylum seekers.
The Goldman Act empowered the State Department to seek the return of American children, yet, the department, in my opinion, has not used the full of range of tools as Congress has intended.
I abhor the abuse of children. I have been at the border, and I have held unaccompanied children--desperately sent, because they come from desperate circumstances.





