[FRIAM] Wow!

Mon Mar 10 16:48:06 EDT 2025

Thanks Glen.  Proud to be a New Mexican!!

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Melanie Stansbury Absolutely Loses It On Republicans During House
> Oversight Hearing
> https://youtu.be/BD6DVd2d-Rw?si=PlWUDbP-vtb6eHgf
>
> Transcribed in case you'd rather read than listen:
>
> > Chair recognizes Ms. Stansbury from New Mexico.
> >
> > All right, well, thank you, Mr. Chairman.  I always think that we should
> stage this room after these hearings because we hear a lot of crazy stuff
> in here.  But let me start out by saying, mayors, welcome to our
> committee.  Thank you for serving your cities and your people.  I have to
> say, as also an elected official, you have the hardest job in America.
> There is no job harder than being a mayor of a major city.  So thank you
> for serving your constituents.  And I wanna take this opportunity to
> especially acknowledge Mayor Wu, because not only are you the first woman
> to ever serve the city of Boston, if y'all haven't been watching, she is
> also the mother of a newborn who is here with her.  She has a
> seven-week-year-old baby and she showed up to testify and be yelled at by
> our colleagues for four hours.  So I say to you, Mayor Wu, may your
> daughter grow up to be a fierce leader like you.  Thank you.
> >
> > Now I wanna reject the fundamental premise of this hearing because what
> this entire effort is about is intimidating state and local officials,
> attacking law-abiding immigrant families, and spending millions of dollars
> of taxpayer dollars, both in the administration and in Congress, to make
> ads that are complete smoke and mirrors trying to say that Donald Trump has
> somehow secured America's safety.
> >
> > What they are doing is not making America safer.  In fact, it's a total
> and complete lie because Donald Trump has failed to actually even secure
> the border.  He's failed to stop illicit drugs like fentanyl from crossing
> the border.  He's failed to secure sufficient staffing and technology to
> stop human trafficking and illicit drugs from crossing the border.  He's
> failed to support local law enforcement and behavioral health programs to
> address the issues that are affecting our communities.  And he's failed to
> even execute on the most basic thing that he said he would do, which was to
> pass immigration reform when he got into office.
> >
> > Here we are, Donald Trump.  Where's your immigration bill?  Oh, wait,
> you don't have one.  That's right.  Because none of this is actually about
> making America safer.  In fact, all of this is making America weaker.
> >
> > He's dismantling our federal law enforcement that would actually go
> after cartels and drug traffickers.  Over the last six weeks, Donald Trump
> has taken out the most senior FBI officials and the officials in our US
> attorney's offices that were actually prosecuting the cases against the
> drug cartels.  Donald Trump took out the law enforcement that were
> prosecuting those cases.
> >
> > So let's be real about that.  He froze federal law enforcement funds all
> across the country.  I have tribes in my district that still haven't had
> their DOJ grants reinstated.  Let's be real about what's going on here.
> He's frozen funds to refugee resettlement and other immigrants groups
> permanently who have outstanding receipts.  There are refugees and asylees
> that had waited decades to get to this country from war-torn parts of the
> world, and they literally had their flights canceled the last two weeks,
> while Donald Trump is sitting in the Oval Office and offering millionaire
> oligarchs a free ride into America with his gold visa program.
> >
> > Is this really about making America safe again?  Is that really what
> he's about?  Is that really what my colleagues across the aisle are about?
> Because what I can tell you, as a representative from a great city, the
> city of Albuquerque, a border state, is that we know what makes our
> communities safer.  It means we stop drugs from coming into our country and
> our communities.  It means that we support and we fund our law
> enforcement.  It means that we fund our behavioral health system.  It means
> that we support our mayors, our tribal leaders, and our state officials.
> It means that we invest in them.
> >
> > It does not mean that we drag them in front of Congress for four hours,
> we yell at them, we tell them we're gonna give them criminal referrals, the
> DOJ is intimidating our mayors, and my colleagues across the aisle are
> producing TV ads to try to pretend that they're making this country safe
> again.  It's total bullshit, absolute bullshit.
> >
> > They are not making America safer again, what they are doing is
> terrorizing immigrant families.  That is what they are doing.  Parents who
> are afraid to send their kids to school, parents who are afraid that they
> won't come home again, kids who are afraid to leave their houses, refugees
> who have waited for years to come into this country and our mayors are
> sitting here enduring this ridiculous, ridiculous hearing as they've been
> threatened in front of the American people.
> >
> > So I will say in the words of my sister in the front row who brought
> forward the words of one of our faith leaders just a few days ago on the
> House floor, I hope that my colleagues across the aisle, who I can tell,
> most of whom come from immigrant stock, will have the same mercy that our
> ancestors had shown to them by this country so that you could sit here and
> be a Congressperson.  Thank you.
>
>
>
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