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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.49,0:00:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For over 40 years, I've been\Na clinical social worker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.19,0:00:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a developmental psychologist.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.47,0:00:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it seemed almost natural\Nfor me to go into the helping professions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.28,0:00:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My parents had taught me\Nto do good for others.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.55,0:00:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I devoted my career
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.07,0:00:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to working with families\Nin some of the toughest circumstances:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.85,0:00:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poverty, mental illness,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.05,0:00:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immigration, refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.52,0:00:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for all those years,\NI've worked with hope and with optimism.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.86,0:00:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the past five years, though,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.92,0:00:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my hope and my optimism\Nhave been put to the test.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.41,0:00:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been so deeply disappointed\Nin the way the United States government
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.72,0:00:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is treating families who are coming\Nto our southern border,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.16,0:00:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking for asylum --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.31,0:00:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,desperate parents with children,\Nfrom El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.42,0:00:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who only want to bring their kids\Nto safety and security.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.68,0:01:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are fleeing some of\Nthe worst violence in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.40,0:01:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've been attacked by gangs,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.98,0:01:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assaulted, raped, extorted, threatened.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.82,0:01:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have faced death.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.98,0:01:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they can't turn to their police\Nbecause the police are complicit,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.16,0:01:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corrupt, ineffective.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.40,0:01:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they get to our border,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.10,0:01:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we put them in detention centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.35,0:01:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prisons, as if they were common criminals.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.62,0:01:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in 2014, I met some of\Nthe first children in detention centers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.74,0:01:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wept.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.63,0:01:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat in my car afterwards and I cried.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.04,0:01:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was seeing some of the worst\Nsuffering I'd ever known,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.97,0:01:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it went against everything\NI believed in my country,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.69,0:01:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rule of law
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.40,0:01:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything my parents taught me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.75,0:01:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way the United States\Nhas handled the immigrants
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.61,0:02:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeking asylum in our country
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.08,0:02:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the past five years --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.43,0:02:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's wrong, just simply wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.64,0:02:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tonight, I want to tell you\Nthat children in immigration detention
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.86,0:02:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are being traumatized.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.52,0:02:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are causing the trauma.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.17,0:02:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We in America --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.64,0:02:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually, those of us here tonight --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.19,0:02:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will not necessarily be on the same page\Nwith respect to immigration.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.18,0:02:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll disagree on how we're going\Nto handle all those people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.17,0:02:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who want to come to our country.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.37,0:02:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frankly, it doesn't matter to me\Nwhether you're a Republican or a Democrat,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.100,0:02:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liberal or conservative.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.83,0:02:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want secure borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.55,0:02:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also want to keep the bad actors out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.68,0:02:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want national security.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.87,0:02:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, you'll have your ideas\Nabout those topics, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.18,0:02:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think we can agree
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.44,0:03:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that America should not be doing harm.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.31,0:03:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The government, the state, should not\Nbe in the business of hurting children.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.86,0:03:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should be protecting them,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.86,0:03:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter whose children they are:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.76,0:03:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your children, my grandchildren
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.09,0:03:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the children of families\Njust looking for asylum.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.23,0:03:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I could tell you story after story
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.09,0:03:28.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of children who have witnessed\Nsome of the worst violence in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.43,0:03:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are now sitting in detention.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.89,0:03:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But two little boys have stayed with me\Nover these past five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.77,0:03:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them was Danny.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.02,0:03:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny was seven and a half years old\Nwhen I met him in a detention center
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.50,0:03:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Karnes City, Texas, back in 2014.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.94,0:03:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was there with his mother\Nand his brother,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.09,0:03:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they had fled Honduras.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.90,0:03:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Danny is one of these kids\Nthat you get to love instantly.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.60,0:03:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's funny, he's innocent,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.25,0:03:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's charming and very expressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.93,0:04:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's drawing pictures for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.54,0:04:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the pictures he drew for me\Nwas of the Revos Locos.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.48,0:04:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Revos Locos: this is the name
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.44,0:04:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they gave to gangs\Nin the town that he was in.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.33,0:04:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said to Danny,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.95,0:04:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Danny, what makes them bad guys?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.44,0:04:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny looked at me with puzzlement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.71,0:04:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the look was more like,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.24,0:04:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Are you clueless or just stupid?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.62,0:04:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.51,0:04:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He leaned in and he whispered,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.15,0:04:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't you see?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.10,0:04:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They smoke cigarettes."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.79,0:04:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.81,0:04:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And they drink beer."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.67,0:04:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny had learned, of course,\Nabout the evils of drinking and smoking.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.38,0:04:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then he said, "And they carry guns."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.34,0:04:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one of the pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.80,0:04:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stick figures of the Revos Locos\Nare shooting at birds and at people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.84,0:04:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny told me about the day his uncle\Nwas killed by those Revos Locos
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.75,0:05:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how he ran from his house\Nto his uncle's farmhouse,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.70,0:05:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only to see his uncle's dead body,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.17,0:05:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his face disfigured by bullets.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.51,0:05:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Danny told me he saw his uncle's teeth\Ncoming out the back of his head.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.55,0:05:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was only six at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.89,0:05:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometime after that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.39,0:05:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of those Revos Locos\Nbeat little Danny badly, severely,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.91,0:05:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's when his parents said,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.79,0:05:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We have got to leave\Nor they will kill us."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.09,0:05:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they set out.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.96,0:05:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Danny's father was\Na single-leg amputee with a crutch,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.79,0:05:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he couldn't manage the rugged terrain.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.58,0:05:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he said to his wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.58,0:05:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Go without me. Take our boys.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.11,0:05:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Save our boys."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.16,0:05:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Mom and the boys set off.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.99,0:05:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Danny told me he looked back,\Nsaid goodbye to his father,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.77,0:05:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked back a couple of times\Nuntil he lost sight of his father.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.100,0:05:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In detention, he had not\Nheard from his father.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.13,0:05:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's very likely that his father\Nwas killed by the Revos Locos,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.70,0:06:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he had tried to flee.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.13,0:06:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't forget Danny.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.66,0:06:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other boy was Fernando.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.19,0:06:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Fernando was\Nin the same detention center,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.45,0:06:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roughly the same age as Danny.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.90,0:06:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fernando was telling me about the 24 hours\Nhe spent in isolation with his mother
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.36,0:06:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the detention center,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.56,0:06:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,placed there because his mother\Nhad led a hunger strike
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.76,0:06:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the mothers in the detention center,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.83,0:06:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now she was cracking\Nunder the pressure of the guards,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.63,0:06:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were threatening and being\Nvery abusive towards her and Fernando.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.87,0:06:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Fernando and I are talking\Nin the small office,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.13,0:06:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his mother burst in,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.03,0:06:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she says, "They hear you!\NThey're listening to you."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.27,0:06:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she dropped to her hands and knees,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.32,0:06:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she began to look under the table,\Ngroping under all the chairs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.83,0:06:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She looked at the electric sockets,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.69,0:06:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the corner of the room,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.93,0:06:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the floor, the corner of the ceiling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.83,0:07:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the lamp, at the air vent, looking\Nfor hidden microphones and cameras.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.40,0:07:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I watched Fernando\Nas he watched his mother spiral
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.78,0:07:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into this paranoid state.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.16,0:07:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked in his eyes\Nand I saw utter terror.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.83,0:07:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all, who would take care\Nof him if she couldn't?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.32,0:07:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was just the two of them.\NThey only had each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.91,0:07:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could tell you story after story,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.78,0:07:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I haven't forgotten Fernando.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.90,0:07:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know something about\Nwhat that kind of trauma,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.36,0:07:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stress and adversity does to children.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.91,0:07:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm going to get clinical\Nwith you for a moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.56,0:07:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to be\Nthe professor that I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.77,0:07:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under prolonged and intense stress,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.07,0:07:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trauma, hardship, adversity,\Nharsh conditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.42,0:07:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the developing brain is harmed,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.99,0:07:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plain and simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.100,0:07:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its wiring and its architecture
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.78,0:08:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are damaged.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.35,0:08:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The child's natural stress\Nresponse system is affected.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.92,0:08:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's weakened of its protective factors.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.47,0:08:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regions of the brain\Nthat are associated with cognition,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.43,0:08:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intellectual abilities,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.39,0:08:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,judgment, trust, self-regulation,\Nsocial interaction,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.46,0:08:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are weakened, sometimes permanently.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.54,0:08:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That impairs children's future.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.37,0:08:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also know that under stress,\Nthe child's immune system is suppressed,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.47,0:08:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making them susceptible to infections.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.33,0:08:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chronic illnesses, like diabetes,\Nasthma, cardiovascular disease,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.34,0:08:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will follow those children into adulthood\Nand likely shorten their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.43,0:08:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mental health problems are linked\Nto the breakdown of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.69,0:08:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seen children in detention
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.56,0:08:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have recurrent\Nand disturbing nightmares,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.98,0:08:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,night terrors,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.11,0:09:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depression and anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.98,0:09:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dissociative reactions,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.48,0:09:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopelessness, suicidal thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.44,0:09:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and post-traumatic stress disorders.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.32,0:09:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they regress in their behavior,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.35,0:09:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the 11-year-old boy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.08,0:09:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who began to wet his bed again\Nafter years of continence.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.07,0:09:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the eight-year-old girl\Nwho was buckling under the pressure
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.20,0:09:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was insisting\Nthat her mother breastfeed her.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.87,0:09:27.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what detention does to children.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.92,0:09:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you may ask:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.34,0:09:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we do?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.83,0:09:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What should our government do?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.05,0:09:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I'm just a mental\Nhealth professional,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.22,0:09:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so all I really know is about\Nchildren's health and development.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.64,0:09:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have some ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.52,0:09:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, we need to reframe our practices.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.75,0:09:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to replace fear and hostility
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.42,0:09:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with safety and compassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.18,0:10:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to tear down the prison walls,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.89,0:10:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the barbed wire, take away the cages.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.99,0:10:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of prison, or prisons,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.10,0:10:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should create orderly\Nasylum processing centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.28,0:10:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,campus-like communities
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.64,0:10:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where children and families\Ncan live together.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.83,0:10:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could take old motels,\Nold army barracks,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.05,0:10:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refit them so that children and parents\Ncan live as family units
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.89,0:10:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some safety and normality,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.99,0:10:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where kids can run around.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.17,0:10:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In these processing centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.29,0:10:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pediatricians, family doctors,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.44,0:10:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dentists and nurses,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.18,0:10:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be screening, examining,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.71,0:10:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treating and immunizing children,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.40,0:10:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating records that will follow them\Nto their next medical provider.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.98,0:10:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social workers would be conducting\Nmental health evaluations
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.27,0:10:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and providing treatment\Nfor those who need it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.85,0:10:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those social workers\Nwould be connecting families
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.55,0:10:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to services that they're going\Nto need, wherever they're headed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.85,0:11:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And teachers would be teaching\Nand testing children
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.42,0:11:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and documenting their learning
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.09,0:11:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the teachers at the next school
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.05,0:11:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can continue those children's education.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.87,0:11:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot more that we could do\Nin these processing centers.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.32,0:11:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot more.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.15,0:11:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you probably are thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.07,0:11:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is pie-in-the-sky stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.46,0:11:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can't blame you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.26,0:11:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let me tell you that refugee camps\Nall over the world are holding families
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.19,0:11:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like those in our detention centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.78,0:11:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of those refugee camps\Nare getting it right
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.18,0:11:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far better than we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.33,0:11:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The United Nations has issued reports\Ndescribing refugee camps
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.04,0:11:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that protect children's\Nhealth and development.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.08,0:11:52.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children and parents live in family units
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.96,0:11:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and clusters of families\Nare housed together.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.33,0:11:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parents are given work permits\Nso they can earn some money,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.52,0:12:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're given food vouchers so they can\Ngo to the local stores and shop.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.92,0:12:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mothers are brought together\Nto cook healthy meals for the children,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.51,0:12:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and children go to school\Nevery day and are taught.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.80,0:12:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afterwards, after school,\Nthey go home and they ride bikes,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.72,0:12:19.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hang out with friends, do homework\Nand explore the world --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.44,0:12:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the essentials for child development.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.30,0:12:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can get it right.\NWe have the resources to get it right.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.68,0:12:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we need is the will\Nand the insistence of Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.24,0:12:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we treat children humanely.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.66,0:12:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I can't forget\NDanny or Fernando.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.34,0:12:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder where they are today,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.18,0:12:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I pray that they\Nare healthy and happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.59,0:12:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are only two\Nof the many children I met
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.74,0:12:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of the thousands we know about\Nwho have been in detention.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.53,0:13:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may be saddened
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.18,0:13:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by what's happened to the children,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.62,0:13:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm inspired by them.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.20,0:13:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may cry, as I did,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.55,0:13:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I admire those children's strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.82,0:13:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They keep alive my hope\Nand my optimism in the work I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.69,0:13:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So while we may differ\Non our approach to immigration,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.11,0:13:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should be treating children\Nwith dignity and respect.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.32,0:13:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should do right by them.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.100,0:13:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we do,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.12,0:13:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can prepare those children\Nwho remain in the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.84,0:13:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prepare them to become productive,\Nengaged members of our society.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.54,0:13:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those who will return to their\Ncountries whether voluntarily or not
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.81,0:13:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be prepared to become the teachers,\Nthe merchants, the leaders
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.49,0:13:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their country.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.15,0:13:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope together\Nall of those children and parents
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.63,0:13:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could give testimony to the world\Nabout the goodness of our country
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.97,0:14:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our values.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.91,0:14:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we have to get it right.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.99,0:14:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we can agree\Nto disagree on immigration,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.16,0:14:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I hope we can agree on one thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.38,0:14:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that none of us wants to look back\Nat this moment in our history,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.89,0:14:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we knew we were inflicting\Nlifelong trauma on children,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.77,0:14:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we sat back and did nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.50,0:14:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be the greatest tragedy of all.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.83,0:14:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.02,0:14:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)