At a Congressional Progressive Caucus press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) spoke about the Trump Administration’s recent deportations.
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00:00The first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term can only be described as an assault on our immigration system and on the Constitution itself.
00:14Foreign students here legally have been picked off the street simply for speaking out against U.S. foreign policy.
00:24Mixed status families have been torn apart overnight, and people have been sent to foreign prisons without even a chance to defend themselves.
00:36Over the weekend, we learned that even U.S. citizen children, including one battling cancer, have been deported.
00:50Let that sink in.
00:53U.S. citizen children, sick with cancer, deported to foreign countries.
01:02How can we claim to stand for human rights or be a beacon of hope around the world when this is how we treat our most vulnerable Americans?
01:18Each of these examples is tragic, but taken together, they amount to an assault on due process, which has always been the foundation of the American justice system.
01:34We have a Department of Homeland Security that acts like the law doesn't apply to them.
01:43We have a president who floats the idea of sending American citizens to rot in a Salvadorian prison.
01:53And we have an administration that seems to take pride in tearing down, tearing up the basic rights that are supposed to protect all of us.
02:06We're not going to stand by and watch this happen.
02:11In 100 days, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on due process, and they are only getting bolder.
02:24That is why we have to speak out.
02:28Because if we don't push back now, it won't stop with immigrants.
02:36No one's rights in this country will be safe.
02:41Who will be next?
02:44A reporter for doing his or her job about reporting about some assault or sharing an opinion on foreign policy?
02:58Who is next?
03:00We've got to stop this by organizing and mobilizing.