David Cicilline: “Speaker Pelosi has been an extraordinary and great champion for our community and a bulwark of support for this bill.”

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.

Democracies consistently prove to be the most reliable geopolitical allies and trading partners for our country.

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.

What we’ve said to the General Assembly is you’re going to have to have a transition plan that takes that into account.