Speaker, every day, we wake up and we have a choice of
how we can look at the world: through the murkiness of fear or through
the clarity of truth. I challenge you to choose clarity, choose a
perspective that is grounded in truth and in love. Today, President Trump announced the opening of the Victims of
Immigration Crime Engagement Office, or VOICE, an office that will spew
propaganda highlighting crimes committed by immigrants as opposed to
equally harmful crimes committed by nonimmigrants. It is a waste of
taxpayer money that will manipulate law enforcement data in an attempt
to play on fears and anxieties. I am countering the opening of VOICE with the Saved By American
Immigrants National Task Force, SAINT. The SAINT task force will
collect and share stories of the countless immigrants who have saved
Americans lives through heroic acts. I am calling for stories like the story of Maytham Alshadood, a
Coloradan who grew up in Baghdad. He aspired to be veterinarian and
began his studies, worked with the American Army as a translator, and
had to leave because of the increase in violence. He came under a
special immigrant visa. He started school in America. He is now a
registered nurse, saving and transforming lives in America every day,
including those of veterans.
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