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On the recordJune 21, 2018
Mr. Speaker, last September, President Trump took our Dreamers, those incredible young people who are contributing so much to America, he took them hostage. Then, this month, he added to the hostages by ordering that babies, literally, be yanked out of their moms' arms. Today, with his Republican enablers, he is basically saying: Give me my $25 billion wall ransom, and give it to me paid in full. But I am not promising to release the hostages. Today's bill is wrong for Dreamers. It is wrong for taxpayers. It is wrong for those families who have been torn apart by this government- sanctioned child abuse. How great that, with his latest U-turn today, the President is dispatching his wife, a mother herself, to the Texas border. I just happen to feel that the kids that are tied up in those cages don't want to see a mother. They want to see their mother. Tonight, they will cry themselves to sleep again, because the self- described ``stable genius'' didn't bother to include anything in his executive order to reunite those families. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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