Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
was "full of indignation" when he saw the reports and heard from
politicians about the deplorable and inhumane conditions for illegal
immigrants at an El Paso County, Texas migrant detention center. But
what he saw at the same facility toured by Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. with a group of pastors was "drastically
different."
The president of the National
Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the world's largest Hispanic
Christian organization, and senior pastor of New Seasons Christian
Worship Center in Sacramento shared his firsthand experience touring a
migrant detention center during a press briefing Monday.
“I read the reports, saw the news clips. I just wanted to see what was actually happening in order to better enable our efforts to find a fair and a just solution to our broken immigration system," Rodriguez, who has advised President Trump and both Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush on immigration reform, noted. “To my surprise, I saw something drastically different from the stories I’ve been hearing in our national discourse. Even as a veteran of immigration advocacy in the U.S., I was shocked at the misinformation of the crisis at the border."
Rodriguez points blame for that broken immigration system at consecutive White House administrations and especially both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress and implored each to “address the system they created.”
“What's heart-wrenching is that we have both Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress, who can't come together for the purpose of doing the right thing and finding a solution to our immigration crisis,” he said. “Please, President Trump, please White House, work with the Republicans and the Democrats [and] please, please, please, please, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, please come together to solve this crisis, immediately.”
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