"DACA repeal and deportation of about 800,000 DACA recipients would reduce economic growth by an estimated $280 billion and cost more than $460 billion in economic output over the next decade."
"continuing unraveling of the ACA will increase premiums by double-digit percentages in most states next year, an estimated 18 percent on average."
"Crackdown on Immigrants undermines public safety."
"I am confused, frankly, about why we are having this hearing."
"Without that cooperation and trust of undocumented immigrants, we would not have been able to get some dangerous offenders off the street."
"We know we cannot arrest our way out of the opioid crisis."
"The latest falsehood is outrageous. Immigrants are certainly not making the opioid crisis worse."
"Because if you had, you would see--because I am a member of that bipartisan task force and it has been working for several years on this very serious issue of the opioid crisis--nowhere in those recom..."
"It would be laughable if it were not so serious; if it were not so hurtful to the characterization of immigrants."
"To blame one person who is an immigrant for the crimes of everybody else... is a good tactic for dividing and scapegoating."
"We are not safer when victims of crime fear being deported if they call 911."