00:00How does taking a father from a child dying of cancer qualify?
00:04Where would that be? Is that a violent crime?
00:07I don't know what you're speaking or referencing.
00:09I thought you exactly what I'm speaking of.
00:10Ruben Torres, two weeks ago, buried his daughter Ophelia.
00:13When he was arrested at the Home Depot in Norwich, Illinois,
00:17he said to those who, your agents, please let me go home.
00:21My daughter is dying of cancer.
00:23I would like to be with her in her last days of her life.
00:25They said no.
00:27They arrested him and deported him for two weeks.
00:30Finally, he returned for a court hearing.
00:32His daughter lived to see that hearing where the court said he was treated unfairly by your agency,
00:36and she died three days later.
00:38I was at her memorial service.
00:40Is that really necessary?
00:41Was he a violent criminal?
00:43Sir, we enforce the law.
00:45The laws that are passed by this body and signed into statute on the process
00:50for individuals that are in this country illegally,
00:52that have final removal orders in the process given in immigration law.
00:56We continue to follow that.
00:58And if you don't like the law, I would suggest you change the law.
01:02But that is what we do every single day is go out there.
01:04We tried to change it with comprehensive immigration reform,
01:07and it was stopped by the Republican House of Representatives.
01:10Our job at the department is to follow the law
01:12and make sure that we are a nation of laws,
01:14because a nation that doesn't follow the law is no nation at all.
01:19I yield, Mr. Chairman.
01:21Senator.
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