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Pramila Jayapal Quotes

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“ Some of them said they could hear their children screaming for them in the next room. The children ranged anywhere from one to teenagers.”
— Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’
Tagged: Refugees, asylum seekers, Screaming, Heartache
“I met with 174 women, in three different pods. I went from one pod to the next. The vast majority were Spanish speaking, but there was a group of Chinese speakers and some others. We had a Spanish interpreter. The women would all answer at once sometimes. I did a lot of ‘raise your hand’ questions. ‘How many are asylum seekers?’ The majority lifted up their hands.”
— Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’
Tagged: Refugees, Spanish Speaking, chinese speaking, asylum seekers
“Thirty to 40 percent of these women came with children who had been forcibly taken away from them. None got a chance to say goodbye to their children—they were forcibly taken away. One said she was deceived, because they were in detention together. Then the CBP officers told her she was going out to get her photograph taken. When she came back, she was put in a different room, and she never got to see the child again.”
— Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’
Tagged: Refugees, Spanish Speaking, chinese speaking, asylum seekers
“They came from the southern border. The majority are from Texas, those exact same checkpoints that have been written about before. But because there’s no place to keep them there, they’re being transferred around the country. Interestingly, we do have an immigration detention center in Tacoma, but that’s full because Trump has ramped up detention so dramatically—most of those centers are full now. So these women were transferred to a Bureau of Prisons federal facility that is used to keep everyone from pretrial detainees to the highest-level federal criminals in top security. It’s owned and operated by the federal government. It’s not contracted out. It’s all unionized employees—and that is why these women said this is the first place they felt treated like a human being. There are standards at these government-run facilities.”
— Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’
Tagged: Refugees, Bureau of Prisons, Detainees, Employees
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