[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 99 (Thursday, June 14, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5162]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CRUELTY IN ITS PUREST FORM

  (Mr. KENNEDY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, tonight children--2, 3, 4 years old--will 
sleep alone in cages on American soil.
  Yes, the brutality being perpetrated by the United States Government 
is about who we are as a country. It is about morality. It is about 
humanity. But first, it is about those kids:
  The 5-year-old boy from Honduras who collapsed on a kitchen floor in 
Michigan, sobbing for his parents;
  The mother who had to listen to her 7-year-old daughter frantically 
screaming in a detention room next door as she was hauled away;
  The 3-year-old boy who was put, inconsolable, on a flight to the 
Midwest after his mother was left behind;
  A 4-month-old baby ripped from his father's arms.
  I don't care what you believe. I don't care who you vote for or what 
you think about the nuances of immigration reform. These children--
babies--need to be with their parents, just like every other child in 
this country. Anything less is cruelty in its purest form.

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