Pramila Jayapal
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And ICE and CBP have turned into completely unconstitutional agencies that have terrorized entire communities, killed US citizens in our streets, and are jailing over 70,000 people every single night in immigrant incarceration facilities.
Regardless of immigration status, US citizens, legal permanent residents, people with valid visas, every single night 70,000 people.
Those mass detention policies have been ruled illegal by over 420 judges across the country, including a majority of judges who were appointed by Donald Trump.
So this is not a partisan issue.
To trans people everywhere, I also want you to know this.
Those people are threatened by your strength, by your joy in being fully who you are.
Those who fight against trans people are just jealous of the freedom that they have taken to be fully who they are.
And so those people just want to destroy that rather than imagine what it would be like to be fully who they are.
I cannot believe we're back here again, Ben.
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To trans people everywhere, I also want you to know this.
Those people are threatened by your strength.
by your joy in being fully who you are.
Those who fight against trans people are just jealous of the freedom that they have taken to be fully who they are.
And so those people just want to destroy that rather than imagine what it would be like to be fully who they are.
Wise words from our young people.
I think she probably opened it up to us on Monday, two days before the hearing, so she could see what we were going to search and ask her about.
To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand.
And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice.