WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) today spoke on the Senate floor about funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the fear spreading across the nation as a result of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement. Senator Blunt Rochester has already announced her opposition (https://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-senator-lisa-blunt-rochester-to-oppose-dhs-funding-bill/) to the current legislation that would fund DHS, as currently written.
Below are Senator Blunt Rochester's remarks, as delivered:
Mr. President, I rise today in disbelief of where we are as a country. I will tell you, in listening t...