[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HUMAN RIGHTS EMERGENCY

  (Mr. CARDENAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARDENAS. Mr. Speaker, right now we have a human rights emergency 
at our borders. ICE agents are ripping children from their mothers' 
arms. These are babies as young as 11 months. They are holding these 
children in facilities that are so full that now Trump wants to build 
tent cities to house more children.
  There are reports of ICE agents telling parents that they are taking 
their child to give them a bath, and then the parents don't see their 
baby again.
  Think about that: No notice. No due process. Just silent, cruel 
separation.
  This is happening on our American soil. This is the policy of the 
Trump administration. ICE has an $8 billion budget, and this is what 
our taxpayer dollars are buying: holding babies, cold and alone, in 
what are internment camps for little children.
  My fellow colleagues, we are not a country that follows a selfish, 
coldhearted dictator. We are the United States of America.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President

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