[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5140]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      WHY ARE WE TAKING CHILDREN?

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, we are on the eve of Father's Day. 
Fathers and mothers, their greatest gift, in their minds, are their 
children. Their greatest loves are their children. The greatest 
willingness to sacrifice their lives are for their children.
  Mr. Rodas asked the question: ``Why are you taking him?'' Mr. Rodas, 
an immigrant from Honduras, wanted nothing more than a better life for 
his wife and three children, and Edison was with him.
  In a policy that could be more wicked than evil, this administration, 
with no legal grounding, has begun to snatch children away from their 
fathers and their mothers.
  I know the policy. It was designed some years back for unaccompanied 
children. It was not designed for punishment, for taking children from 
parents who then do not know where they are and possibly the government 
not being able to find them.
  Why are we taking him from his father? Why are babies crying in the 
night? Because mothers are separated, because they have been snatched 
away at the border in my State, the State of Texas.
  We should cease and desist, Mr. Speaker. This is Father's Day.
  Why are we taking children? The American people need to know, and the 
American people need to stand up.

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