Political Quotes

“As the founder and cochair of the Congressional Children's Caucus, I rise to talk about children, the children in America who need more Head Start seats or the children in northern Nigeria who are being attacked and stolen away by Boko Haram who stole some 30 or 40 girls and some 31 boys. I rise to talk about the children who are at America's border-- through no fault of their own and through no fault of this administration--a baby or children laying on the floor with a blanket. Some have taken to the political grandstanding of blaming the President and the President's administration. The United Nations has indicated that this is a proportion of international humanitarian crisis. Fifty-eight percent of the children that were questioned were not here for immigration issues; they are displaced internationally--they were forcibly displaced. It is our job to address this question. We should address this question with humanitarian response, with more processing centers. We should have more detention centers that are there for families and children, so they can be processed appropriately; more immigration judges; we must deal with more children's organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, First Focus, Children's Legal Defense Fund. Let us not grandstand on these babies. They are here because they have been forced to leave a devastating condition in their country. Attacking the administration is wrong. ____________________”