We are needlessly putting innocent lives at risk. Our Coast Guard is being put in the untenable position of endangering lives in order to keep people from reaching our shores.
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I haven't seen this level of fear in the immigrant community in the past two decades.Cheryl Little
We've closed over 47,000 cases since we opened our doors in early 1996, and it's never been my understanding that's why a family came here. They come here to escape political persecution, or to make a better life for themselves -- not to have a U.S.-born-citizen child who can apply for the parent to become a citizen 21 years later.
Cheryl Little
Military personnel were telling us at the time -- they're trained to fight -- they're not trained to run a refugee camp.
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We think it's imperative they're released. They'd have a much better opportunity to find attorneys. The cards are really stacked against them.
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They're not from a Communist country, and so folks tend to assume they're just economic refugees. They don't have the kind of political clout that a lot of other groups have. And frankly, I think the color of their skin has a lot to do with it.
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