Patrick Leahy actually said...

We actually did this in a thing called The Place, in Burlington, Vermont, for 7 or 8 years, back in the late '60s and early '70s.

the Nation's immigration courts are understaffed--you've got 32 vacancies, nearly half of the 200 immigration judges eligible for retirement...

Madam Chair, I appreciate what you've said and what Senator Shaheen said earlier about what I've been doing up in Vermont.

It's important to our system in the United States that the powerful don't pay a fine while the ordinary person goes to prison.