dr. amy cohen. three weeks ago, i traveled to the border town of mccallum in texas.s a child psychologist who is been much of my career cheating -- treating trauma, i knew what we're doing when far beyond the distress were seeing on tv. i knew my government was deliberately torturing young children. [indiscernible] i knew that as a doctor, a parent, and american, and a human being, i had to act and i had to say, not in my name. [applause] >> i have only just come from texas, the heartbeat of that time with sister norm's respite center, an astonishing place. children and parents released from the hardship of detention would come to find respect and care before departing for distant destinations. every day, the vision of children clinging to the dusty pant leg of a father, reaching up to be lifted by a mother, sense ofow a child's safety and security is tied to their knowledge that their parents will be present. takenildren who have been , whose parents and sense of safety have been stolen, these children try every day to summon their parents, as children do, with crie