Howard Dean: “Last week, nearly 50 migrants who sought asylum and refuge in America were met with grossly un-American actions.…”

“Last week, nearly 50 migrants who sought asylum and refuge in America were met with grossly un-American actions. Governor DeSantis deceived them and shipped them across the Nation, like chattel, to Martha's Vineyard all in search of hollow political points. Not only was this a failed political stunt, it was a failure of common humanity--of common decency. To think of what men, women, children--a 1-month-old--endured to seek asylum in our great Nation. To think of the bravery and the agony to leave your home, your family, your country in search of a better way of life--fleeing communism, political and economic instability in Venezuela. Madam Speaker, Members come to this floor to give 1-minute speeches every session, and I hear Republican speeches and I see the signs, the stunts--Biden's border crisis. No. This is America's problem, our problem. And a ``wall'' or these recent, cruel stunts by shameful Governors auditioning to be the next Trump offer no solutions, no hope. Instead, it will take courage--courage by Republicans in both Chambers to come back to the table and work with Democrats to fix our long-broken immigration system. That is the American way. ____________________”