Contact: Edie Heipel, Edie.Heipel@mail.house.gov

This afternoon, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna joined Senator Rick Scott (FL) for a tour of a migrant shelter in Safety Harbor after a migrant child in custody of the United States government died earlier this week.  

Rep. Luna issued the following statement:

“It took losing an innocent child on Biden’s watch to get national attention on the stark reality that this administration’s blatant refusal to stop this insanity is taking lives. Real people. Children. Every day. 

Today, we toured the facility where this child was kept by the U.S. government before he died. I’ve said it for years: this heartbreaking and nonsensical situation impacts people on both sides and must be stopped. 

The death of this child and the trafficking, rape, and indiscriminate exploitation of thousands of others, can be laid at the feet of Joe Biden’s irresponsible apathy. 

I have three words: end this madness.” 

Watch Rep. Luna’s remarks at the press conference here.