.@hrw research out today shows that family separation is STILL harming children and their families -- including mass separations of children from adult family members at the border. @MichaelBochenek https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/us-family-separation-harming-children-families …
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Minority opening statement argues that
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Rep. Biggs calling for the "funding necessary" to expand detention on the border citing my and
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@RepEscobar pointing out rightly that border communities with a FRACTION of federal resources have responded compassionately to migrants. Instead, the US government has chosen cruelty.Näytä tämä ketju -
Then raising the violations of due process and endangerment of the Migrant Protection Protocols
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@AOC "It is unnecessary to treat brothers, aunties, grandmothers no differently than human traffickers." Yes, say we at@hrw https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/us-family-separation-harming-children-families …Näytä tämä ketju -
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@AOC "We were asked to surrender our phones and be guarded by the people who we had no guarantee" were not in the hate-filled Facebook group in which agents posted direct threats against the female Congressional representatives on the tour.Näytä tämä ketju -
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@RashidaTlaib "Mr Chairman we do have a crisis at our border. It is one of morality."Näytä tämä ketju -
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@RepPressley asks what we will "say to this generation of children and families imprisoned for seeking safety. We should be begging for forgiveness."Näytä tämä ketju -
Now starting the second panel, which includes the
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They should investigate why 250 children were transferred abruptly from the Clint Border Patrol station to ORR custody before the supplemental was passed but only days after we -- the Flores monitors -- went public with our findings about the situation in the facility.
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And now Elora Mukherjee. She has spent over 1000 hours in immigration detention facilities. And interviewed children with me and other at the Clint Border Patrol station.
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Elora is discussing an inconsolable child she met with - separated from his brother - who sobbed on her lap for an hour.
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And now recess until 1:15 PM ET. I have some commitments then but check out
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