"I ask you to to have mercy upon people in our country who are scared now… children fear that their parents will be taken away"
"There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children, in democratic, republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives."
"The people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farm and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the nightshifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens, or have the proper identification, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals."