But even the raid on the home of Elian Gonzalez was carried out after all peaceful means of negotiation were exhausted. Surely there is a better way to take action when people have exhausted all of their legal remedies than to send armed agents into neighborhoods. apartment complexes. and family homes. Those who are being deported are the ones most likely to have no attorney. no understanding of the laws and the practices of immigration courts. and now could be vulnerable to attack and murder back in Central America. The fact is that some of the people the U.S. Government has deported in the past years have ended up dead in days or weeks after their return. We have to make sure that same tragic fate does not wait for the individuals and families the government is currently rounding up. Along with other Members of Congress. I am seeking answers from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson as to why this policy is needed. why it was launched to instill fear in immigrant households over the Christmas holidays. and why family detention centers I have been trying to close are now filling up with new families awaiting deportation. This is not the Democratic Partys solution to immigration questions. nor should it be Americas. We expect heated calls for raids and deportation from the other side. We hear their calls for walls. bigger jails. and further restrictions on legal immigration. We will fight their efforts to erect religious or economic barriers to who can qualify for a chance to come to America. Our party has rejected those calls with good reason. Americans want order and legality in immigration. not deportations and families forcefully split apart or exiled. We do not need to repeat that scene multiplied by hundreds or thousands of times across our Nation. What we need to do is not easy. but it is the right thing to do.
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