Bill Lee

This is why we cannot have a regional minimum wage. A regional minimum wage would have such a huge racial disparate impact it would border on being just outright racist because it singles out black women and women of color to not be…

So giving a tax cut like we just did has a racially disparate impact because of the huge tax cut we gave from which people of color did not benefit when you look at who got that huge part of the tax cut.

It is vitally important because at the root it is being blind when we make policies across the board on many issues, and the effect of many policies that on the face appear race neutral. They are not.

Since the 70s, economic growth for middle class and low income workers has only risen actually by one-third while income for the top 1 percent has tripled.

I care deeply about rising income inequality in our country and have been working on it for many years.

So it is time for you all to speak out and say something, that they should be banned for the list of reasons you just enunciated.

But you can recommend.

We need to catch up with NIH, and I want to find out legally can we do that?

I would like to make sure we get that report as soon as possible because this is a dire situation.

Hopefully, we will really see our goals of ending HIV and AIDS by 2030.

I have witnessed at least my mother and other senior citizens, the health benefits of cannabis.

We have got to figure this out.

The harm that we are inflicting on them and on these families may be irreparable, and that we have a role in that as the U.S. Government.

One of the basic elements of the United States policy was to take children from their families. That was family separation.

As Congresswoman Lee pointed out.

I foresee some very difficult issues that these children are going to face as a result of the trauma that they have experienced.

Can you get back to us in writing who has the authority to rescind the MOA?

You say they are not jails or prison. I say you are warehousing children.

But the feeling I almost got was, it almost appears that these children could be seen as borderline criminals.

It feels like a prison. It feels like a jail.

You may not see that they are driven by profit, but corporate entities are driven by profit.

But you don't have mental health professionals that have an expertise in trauma-related psychotherapy to help 100 percent of these children.

One hundred percent do.

These policies, quite frankly, are inhumane and threaten the fundamental rights of millions.

I have been horrified and outraged by the actions taken by the Trump Administration to deliberately separate families in our country.