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Ms. DEXTER. Mr. Speaker, all morning, my team has been sorting through more than 60 privacy release forms I received from people imprisoned at Dilley.
by any measure of fairness or common sense, should not be locked up. They were green card holders, asylum seekers, people with some level of legal protection, people without criminal records, and children who have been there for months in a direct violation of Federal law.
releases so their Members of Congress could advocate for them because the system, as it stands, is not delivering justice reliably without intervention. That should outrage all of us.
of Congress to access basic due process. I am angry because this cruelty is intentional.
We must demand justice: an immigration system that follows the rule of law, a system that doesn't imprison children, a system that keeps families together, a system that guarantees access to due justice abiding by the law.
That is what I will keep fighting for.