[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 104 (Thursday, June 21, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H5369-H5370]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              IMMIGRATION

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, my first real professional job was as a 
social worker at Whaley Children's Center in my hometown of Flint, 
protecting kids who had been the subject of child abuse, victims of 
child abuse. We knew then, as we know now, that the best place, 
ultimately, for those kids was to get them back in their family. We 
worked to reunite kids with their families.
  So it is particularly offensive to see the President of the United 
States, the Government of the United States, adopt policy that 
intentionally separates children from their families.
  This is child abuse. This is child abuse. Nothing else.
  The notion that a government would engage in this practice ought to 
offend everyone, and the idea that the President is congratulating 
himself for ending a policy that he, himself, ordered to separate 
children seeking asylum in this country from their families is 
ridiculous. Those who have sat silent as

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this has happened are complicit in this policy.
  Now, today, we will take up two pieces of legislation, neither of 
which deal substantially with the immigration problem.
  My God in Heaven, let's get this done.

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