[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 11, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CONDITIONS OF MIGRANT DETENTION FACILITIES ARE INHUMANE

  (Mr. GARCIA of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARCIA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I am joined today by my 
colleagues to show our country the inhumane conditions of migrant 
detention facilities.
  As a grandfather and an immigrant, my heart breaks every time another 
child dies in U.S. custody.
  Migrants are escaping some of the harshest political and economic 
turmoil in Central America, only to have their children die once they 
arrive here. Like 1-year-old Mariee Juarez and her mother who fled 
domestic abuse in Guatemala, then she died in a U.S. hospital after 
receiving inadequate care.
  We don't allow prisoners to die. How are we allowing children to die 
in Federal custody?
  Last week, the inspector general of DHS confirmed what we already 
knew: Conditions are dangerous and unsanitary.
  This is cruel and un-American. This cannot be the new normal. What 
the President is doing is anything but normal.
  When Attorney General Sessions initiated this, it was a bad way to 
move forward.
  Is this the message that President Trump wants to send the world, 
that the U.S. is where children come to die?
  How many children must die before this administration acts?

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