Ted Lieu Plays the Audio of Crying Children in Detention Centers on the House Floor

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LIEU: "I am Congressman Ted Lieu of California. If the statue of liberty could cry, she would be crying today. As I stands here there are 2,300 babies and kids who're ripped away from their parents by our government and are in detention facilities across America. America was a country founded by people fleeing persecution. We are a land of immigrants. President Ronald Reagan called us that shining city upon the hill. Unfortunately Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen have perverted that grand legacy and have now engaged in the functional equivalent of kidnapping. You can believe in any God or no God at all. In conclude that ripping kids away from their parents is immoral. I believe in Jesus Christ. Every single thing in the gospels and what Christ taught goes against the policy of family separation. Imagine being a mother and father and losing your child to the government and not knowing if you're ever going see your child again, the horror of that. Imagine being a child, when you were young, your parents were likely the most important people in your life, imagine being ripped away from your mother or father and not knowing if you're ever going to see them again, and then being placed in a detention facility with strangers. Imagine the horror and fury -- fear will you see doing that. What must that sound like?"