Katie Phang

All right.

Good evening, America.

I'm Congresswoman Yasemin Ansari.

I'm proud to represent Phoenix, Glendale, and Guadalupe in the U.S.

House of Representatives.

And tonight, it is my absolute honor to be standing here with Sonia Almaraz.

Sonia's loved one is Yari.

Yari is a lawful permanent resident, a green card holder who was stripped of her legal status by Donald Trump's racist mass deportation agenda.

For over a year, Yari has been locked up at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona.

Yari has leukemia.

When I visited her, she was too weak to stand.

When I sat with her, I watched her vomit blood.

And tonight, while Yari suffers in detention, Donald Trump stands before Congress and lies to the American people.

Donald Trump claims he is going after the worst of the worst, and that is a lie.

Yadi has no criminal record.

Meanwhile, this administration and the Republican enablers in Congress handed ICE a $75 billion slush fund to terrorize our communities with no accountability.

And let's be clear about who built this machine.

Stephen Miller built...

Stephen Miller, the most awful human being, architected this cruel immigration agenda from the ground up.

It is an agenda rooted in fear, rooted in hatred, and the belief that some people simply do not belong.