WASHINGTON, D.C. >> On Thursday, Congressman Mike Thompson spoke on the House floor against the President’s policies that previously separated families and that now incarcerate children. He called on the Speaker to hold votes on legislation that will fix this crisis and provide certainty for Dreamers.
Below is the text of his floor speech:
Mr. Speaker, the President created a humanitarian crisis that inflicts lasting trauma on children when he mandated that they be taken from their parents at the border.
The President’s executive action just trades one trauma for another by locking up children indefinitely.
This is about the lives and the well-being of children.
There are over 2,000 kids who were taken from their parents.
I want people watching this to think about those children. The President chose to put them through this to push his harmful and abusive immigration policies.
The speaker could allow a vote on bipartisan immigration bills today to reform our immigration system, and put an end to the president’s policy of traumatizing these kids.
Congress needs to stand up and fix our broken immigration system and put an end to the deplorable tactics of this Administration.
This isn’t who we are as a nation. We need to fix our immigration system and save these kids.
I yield back.
To see the video of his Thursday speech, visit www.facebook.com/RepMikeThompson/videos/10155741112050748/.
