Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia

It seems like any meeting that I went to, whether it was to negotiate a depository contract or a banking contract... it really was still a man's world and it was also very White.

And it is a vicious cycle, and we have to break that vicious cycle.

Because there is this myth out there that if you have bad credit, you are a bad person, you are amoral. That is wrong.

I guess I was just really thinking of the model of credit unions.

So when you say Latinos does that include immigrants who may or may not have authorization to be in this country?

Did you ever just say this really goes against humanity, we should not be doing this to children?

I am just talking, didn't you ever just think this really goes against humanity, we should not be doing this?

But who is the brain child of the policy? Who hatched it? I mean, where did it come from? We have never had it before to the level it is being executed now.

But I heard you say earlier, and maybe the word crime-ridden was not the exact word you used, but it was alluding to the fact that the border areas had a lot of crime, and I just simply don't agree with you.

Every study that we have seen will show that undocumented immigrants are underrepresented in terms of their commission of crimes.

I think we need to keep that in mind.

So, to me, that is why we need the Voting Rights Act. That is why we need so much of what is in this bill.

But what Vice President Biden became the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and polls shows that he had the largest head to head lead against President Trump, that became a problem.

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You cannot stop that later. You need to do it before, so that the harm cannot occur.

The Justice Department can no longer tell us what to do.

I think that part of the problem is because of some of the barriers and some of the impediments that we do have.

Racism is about power, who gets what, when, where and how.

I think we have to really reinvent the challenge that runaways--how they fit into this whole circumstance.

We would not have this conversation if there was not a demand for the commodity of human bodies in this horrible industry.

Thank you, Congresswoman Lee for your leadership.

I thank the gentleman from California for those wonderful words. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis).

I would like to yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Caardenas), who is a hard fighter for these issues. I want to first relate a story. I was debating, the other day, a friend on this issue. He made what he thought was a…