Transcript of Pelosi, (etc) Press Conference Today After Touring South Texas Detention Facility

Brownsville, TX – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Congressman Filemon Vela (D-TX), Congressman Steven Horsford (D-NV), Texas State Senator Eddie Lucio, and Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Executive Director Sister Norma Pimentel for a press conference today after touring a South Texas Detention Facility and receiving a briefing from Customs and Border Protection on the influx of unaccompanied children into the United States. In their remarks, Leader Pelosi and the Members of Congress and advocates called for bipartisan solutions to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. Below is a transcript of Leader Pelosi’s opening remarks followed by a question and answer session:

http://www.democraticleader.gov/Transcript_of_Pelosi_Press_Conference_in_South_Texas

“Good morning. Thank you, Congressman Vela, for the invitation to come here. Thank you, Senator, for your warm welcome. It’s an honor to be here with both of you and with Norma – Sister Pimentel, who is an angel. She is an angel. And I’m glad to be here with my colleague from Nevada, who has been very active in the Congress on this issue, Congressman Steven Horsford of Nevada, as I mentioned. He is a classmate, a freshman classmate, of Congressman Vela.

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“What we just saw was so stunning. If you believe, as we do, that every child, every person, has a spark of divinity in them and is therefore worthy of respect, what we saw in those rooms was dazzling – a sparkling array of God’s children, worthy of respect. So we have to use, as was said this morning, the crisis that some view as a crisis – and it does have crisis qualities – as an opportunity to show who we are as Americans: that we do respect people for their dignity and their worth; that we know how to get the job done, that relates to, again stopping trafficking. Because that’s one of the fundamentals that will reinforce the law.

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“I’m a mother of five. I have nine grandchildren. I wish that I could take all those children home with me. I don’t know if it’s – what the rules about it are. I wish that you could all see what we saw today, and what Congressman Vela and Congressman Hinojosa saw yesterday in McAllen. Perhaps the most tragic image I will take home with me – and I wish I could take him too – was the little boy who is infected with a virus and then in isolation all by himself. That’s for his safety and the safety of others.

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She mentioned divinity and God on a .GOV site! So is it time to break out the pitchforks and torches?