Kamala Harris: ‘We Are Better’ than Having Kids in Cages, Crying for Their Mommies and Daddies

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HARRIS: "When we have kids in cages, crying for mommies and daddies, we know, we are better than this. When we have women fleeing domestic violence and gang crime, and we do not give them a safe place to go, we know we are better than this. When we have over 2,000 children that, right now, are not with their parents because we separated them, because we took them from their parents, we know we are better than this. When we know we have the 2,000 children crying for their parents, and there is no plan for reunification, we know we are better than this. When we know the children will suffer life-long trauma, and this is not reflective of a civil society, because a society will be judged based on how it treats its children and the least among us, we know we are better than this. When we have failed to keep our promise to over 7,000 young people, we call them dreamers, we know we’re better than this. So, we’re at an inflection moment. Years from now, our children, our grandchildren, folks are going to look at us and they’re going to ask a question. The question is going to be, where were you at that inflection moment? What I know, Los Angeles, what I know is, our answer is not simply going to be how we felt. Our answer is going to be what we did. What action we took. The streets we marched. The e-mailing, the phone calls, the text messaging, the voting. We will speak truth to power. We will act on our words. We will vote. We will act. We will not relent. We will not tire. We will keep fighting because we are better than this."