Political Quotes

“I thank Congresswoman Lee for her work, for her leadership. I was thinking about what she said about children and the impact on them, even within 24 hours. We had the then-Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Scott Lloyd, who was in to testify before us in the Judiciary Committee. {time} 2015 We also had other career child welfare experts that were there on the panel, including one who testified to us on the committee that he warned the director and those above him about the increasing family separations and the incredibly significant, and potentially lifelong risks to those children; not only the ones that weren't reunited-- because at that point there was still, as there are today, over 300 families today that still aren't reunited--but not only to the ones that weren't reunited, but he said even the ones who were reunited with their families, but they spent 3 months or even a week, or even 3 weeks--most of them spent months separated from their parents--that lifelong--and he used that--lifelong damage to those children would be intense. I asked Scott Lloyd as the then-director of the Refugee Resettlement Program: Did you do anything?…”