EXCERPT:
SIMON: “From Oakland, where I represent, to Minnesota, people are asking whether their government sees their humanity. Their families, who are watching families separated, communities living in fear and lives forever changed by federal enforcement activities and actions carried out in their own neighborhoods. Now, before we give another dollar to this administration’s immigration enforcement machine, we must examine consequences of these policies firsthand. We should be examining facilities like Delaney Hall, where reports of inadequate medical care have been met by this administration with indifference. We should be talking about American citizens, American citizens who have been killed and wrongfully detained, American citizens, or how immigrant detainees are dying in custody and children, babies are left wondering if they ever see their parents again. Now, allegations of excessive force and medical neglect and the mishandling of sexual assault cases, rape, deserve serious oversight, not billions of dollars and more funding for uncountable and unaccountable agencies like ICE and CBP. Rather than making community safer, I assert that this administration is terrorizing them and our communities.”
