Veronica Escobar

Part of the reform process is the protection of minorities, and it is the fight against harmful and fascist rhetoric as well.

Unfortunately, over the last 60 days, what we have seen, what we have had to focus our attention on, is preventing the violence in the north from spreading even further and from destabilizing the region.

There is nobody who wants a well-managed, safe border more than those of us who live there.

I don't see the same urgency to have that conversation from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

He was not an undocumented immigrant. He was a U.S. citizen.

There is a serious consequence to painting immigrants as dangerous or threatening and making the country feel fearful of them.

I have seen a really alarming trend that has become increasingly more alarming every year that I have been in Congress.

The horrific Trump Administration policy of separating children from their parents at the border, a policy that has caused immeasurable trauma on children.

This is Speaker McCarthy's gift to the extremists in his conference.

I'd like to invite all my colleagues on this Subcommittee to look at a bipartisan immigration bill, the Dignity Act.

If we truly want to address our Nation's immigration challenge and opportunity, we would do that through reasonable legislation.

Nobody wants an orderly immigration process more than those of us who have built our lives on the border.

In other words, taking food away from the mouths of children.

To a person, my Republican colleagues voted against all of that.

This is just yet another example of the messaging and the efforts to try to control women.

I have long worked to ensure that we are creating not just an economic development engine that capitalizes on our advanced manufacturing, our 3Di printing, and our aerospace engineering programs at UTEP, but have worked to make sure that…

It's not that we are becoming a more violent country per se, or a country that is actually seeing massive increases in crime.

We are a Nation awash in guns.

My Republican colleagues all voted against those protections.

When you call for the reinstatement of horrific policies by the previous administration, including deliberate family separation, you're not interested in solutions that help kids.

There is an absolute unwillingness by my Republican colleagues to participate in real solutions.

Last week, when we were here trying to create protections for children, so that they could have access to legal counsel--or, so that they would not be deported, even infants by themselves--my Republican colleagues all voted against those…

When you starve a system, and you do everything possible to create legal pathways, you're not serious about solving these issues.

What I have found is, unfortunately, here in the House of Representatives, there is an absolute unwillingness by my Republican colleagues to participate in real solutions.

Unfortunately, this is not a serious hearing. This is a hearing that is intended to completely distort the record, and really, it's strictly for political purposes.