Senator Chris Murphy

You are going to see grandstanding.

The true State of the Union is this.

This union is in crisis right now.

are by lawless law enforcement.

Our democracy is wilting under ceaseless attack from a president who wants to be a despot.

Millions of Americans are losing their health care because the president has chosen

corruption to pad the pockets of his billionaire friends instead of helping average Americans.

You're not going to hear any of that in that speech tonight.

But by being here for the people's State of the Union, you are going to hear the real story of America, a story of an America that is under siege, but a story of America that is not going to take it, that is going to fight back, and is going to reclaim this country for everything that is good and right about the United States of America.

Ferris Day is going to talk to you tonight about the state of immigrant and refugee America.

ICE is out of control.

It is disappearing legal immigrants.

It is tear gassing elementary schools.

It is murdering American citizens.

Right now, as you know, the Department of Homeland Security is shut down.

And I just want to be very clear with you about my position and I think the position of many others who will stand on this stage tonight.

Not one more dime for the Department of Homeland Security until they start following the law in this country.

Ferris Day came to this country over a decade ago, coming to the United States from a refugee camp.

She told me just off stage that this is the moment

This is the reason that she came here to the United States, to speak truth to power, to explain the trials and tribulations that every immigrant, that every refugee goes through to get here, and to press this country to... I'm stuck at the border!