I am from downstate Illinois, small-town Illinois, and I will
tell you that we desperately need more doctors, not just in individual
towns but at the hospitals that serve those towns. If these 32 can help
us reach those goals, we are going to have better medical care across
our State, but that depends on Congress and Congress meeting its
responsibility. I have come to the floor of the Senate over 100 times now to tell the
stories of individuals who are affected by
DACA and the Dream Act, and I want to do that again today. I found that
speeches are great and statistics are fine, but when you hear the
stories about these individuals--who they are, what they have done, and
what they aspire to do--you can understand the context of this
important national debate. The person I want to introduce today in the Senate is this young
lady, Cristina Velasquez.