Political Quotes

“The Trump administration has enacted a policy of stunning cruelty: cruel in its impact on innocent young children, cruel in its impact on terrified mothers seeking safety from violence and rape. The cruel policy: the aggressive and forceful practice of separating a child from her mother when that mother presents herself at our southern border for the sole purpose of seeking safety. The cruel policy, Mr. Speaker, is the Trump administration's decision--willful, voluntary, calculated decision--to make it a crime for a mother to do what mothers do everywhere and always: protect their children. Whatever challenges we face at the southern border, none will be solved by ripping families apart, sending a child to one place-- strange, unknown, unfamiliar--and the parents to another, neither knowing when, if ever, they will be reunited. This policy is not only cruel, it is unnecessary and ineffective. Mr. Speaker, the President must end this un-American cruelty now and forever. ____________________”