"The administration's current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded,"

-Senator John McCain

"Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history"

-Laura Bush

“He didn’t recognize me,” said Mirce Alba Lopez, 31, of her 3-year-old son, Ederson, her eyes welling up with tears. “My joy turned temporarily to sadness.”

-The New York Times
July 10,2018

"Refugee children belong to their parents, not to the government or other institution. To steal children from their parents is a grave sin, immoral (and) evil. Their lives have already been extremely difficult. Why do we (the U.S.) torture them even more, treating them as criminals?"

- San Antonio's Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller
June 14 via Twitter

“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes.”

- Jeff Sessions citing a text from the New Testament that was used historically to justify slavery in the American South, Nazi rule, and apartheid in South Africa