'We have a crisis at our border,' Rep. Rashida Tlaib says in emotional testimony, saying the Trump administration is 'dead set on sending a hate-filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in America, in our America.'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Democratic colleagues gave defiant, emotional testimony Friday where the New York congresswoman insisted a woman being held at a border facility had been told by a guard to drink from a toilet after the connected sink broke.
“It is a policy of dehumanization implemented by this executive administration laid at the feet of Stephen Miller that creates a tinderbox of violence and dehumanization where hurt people hurt people,” she said.“That women were being called these names under an American flag," she said."We cannot allow for this.”
“The fact is, both parties have failed. The GOP all too often wants to stand at the Rio Grande with a No Trespassing sign … with a ‘help wanted sign’ in the other. Meanwhile, my Democratic colleagues prefer to stand in front of chain link fences next to an empty parking lot while making up hyperbole for clicks, Twitter followers and cynical politics,” he said.
"Today, we examine the Trump administration's inhumane policy of separating children from their parents at the Southern border," said House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at a hearing aimed at examining the Trump administration's family separation practice."I use the word inhumane for a reason. Separating children from their mothers and fathers causes damage that may endure for a lifetime," Cummings said.
She said an “important cultural context” was missing from the conversation about unaccompanied children, adding that in Latino communities “what gets defined as family is different than what usually or what traditionally get defined as family in the United States.” Although the Trump administration ceased its practice of separating migrant children from their parents at the border last year, currently if a child comes to the United States with someone other than their biological parent they are classified as unaccompanied.
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