Pressley has not taken her foot off the necks of her Republican colleagues who have control of both Senate and House in the fight against immigration and healthcare.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is calling on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to release a 13-year-old boy, who is an American citizen, calling his detainment “alarming,” Boston.com reports.
The lawmaker touched on the detainee being a 7th-grader who is allegedly being met with “harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.”
Pressley has remained outspoken against her Republican colleagues, who have control of both the Senate and House, in the fight against immigration and healthcare. According to the Boston Globe, she spoke out against a Republican-led bill authorizing children who are as young as 14 to be tried as adults in the legal system. During a speech to bipartisan colleagues, Pressley provided a different route, highlighting the importance of supporting community-based public safety solutions.
“If Republicans were actually serious about reducing crime, they would follow that example but they are so unserious. Instead of going after predators and pedophiles like Jeffrey Epstein, they are going after children, passing policies to ship middle schoolers to adult prisons. That is child abuse.”
Republicans have never been serious about the care, health, & future of all our children.They want to ship middle schoolers to prison & rip them from their families while protecting predators like Trump & Epstein.We need real, sustainable solutions to keep our kids safe. pic.twitter.com/c8r5z1vZKG— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) October 19, 2025
Amid threats to those who don’t think like Trump or his followers, Pressley highlighted another way to have voices heard during Boston’s No Kings rally. “Because the only way to beat a dictator is with defiance,” she said.
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Source: Black Enterprise
