GBGov. Barker
Secretary Elizabeth McCord, you are trespassing on Arizona state property.
GBGov. Barker
You tricked your way in here, grandstanding for the press on your self-promotion tour, but you are a long way from the federal swamp you call home.
Well, Governor, if Washington, D.C. is a swamp, what's this?
GBGov. Barker
It's none of your business is what it is. And there is a sheriff out front with a warrant for your arrest.
GBGov. Barker.
Y'all can exit peaceably through the back without talking to any press, and I'll let you leave this state without incident.
Look around, Governor. We passed that.
GBGov. Barker
I suggest you get moving before I invite the good sheriff in here to come get you.
Do you think you can intimidate me or shut me up?
GBGov. Barker
Don't test Arizona justice ma'am.
I came here to see for myself and to help Ambassador Lopez see what's going on behind these walls. What I saw is an affront to decency and an assault on our country's core values. Children separated from their parents, in cages, crying, terrified, lacking basic care. And the governor believes it's a deterrent...
(Cut to Stevie, Russell, and Henry watching her on the news.)
(Cut back to Elizabeth in front of the Arizona detention facility)
... But it is child abuse. Plain and simple. No deterrent is worth trading our humanity.
GBGov. Barker
That's enough.
No policy, no matter its goal, is worth lowering our moral standing in the world. Nothing can justify harming children.
GBGov. Barker.
Ma'am, you are on state property.
And the governor wants me to shut up.
But I won't, because what he is doing is immoral and un-American, and every American needs to know about it.
SSheriff
Elizabeth McCord, you are under arrest for criminal trespass in the first degree in violation of section 13...
(cut to Russell, Stevie, and Henry)
Cut back to Elizabeth)
Well... if desperate asylum-seekers aren't free from being detained unfairly in this state. Why should I? (while she's being cuffed) Officer Stevens, I'm guessing this isn't how you thought your day would go.
(cut to Russell, Stevie, and Henry)
Has anything like this ever happened before?
Not in the United States.
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