August 22, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 149 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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                CALLING FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, this morning, today, we have arrived 
in Washington to fight for postal workers, the United States Postal 
Service, in H.R. 8015. But I take this moment to acknowledge close to 
almost 175,000 dead Americans who have died from COVID-19. I applaud 
those who have taken a moment out of their lives to march for those who 
have passed and mourn for those families.
  This is not America. And I acknowledge something else that comes to 
my attention that hurts my heart as a mother, and that is the Trump 
administration's policy to separate children. That the United Nations 
has condemned it as torture and abuse of children--some upwards of 
5,000 children. Their own White House immigration specialists, if you 
will, want it to be 25,000 children. This is not America.
  Today, we fight for those who have come to our doors in rain, snow, 
or shine. We must also fight for the children and never again in 
America see any policy that snatches children away from their families. 
Immigrant or nonimmigrant, we are Americans who have values that stand 
for something--equality and justice.

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