Senator Chris Murphy

Good evening, America.

I want you first to give a big round of applause to my guest, refugee and immigrant advocate from Connecticut, Farishteh Ganjave.

speech tonight because Donald Trump is making a mockery of this great institution and he doesn't deserve an audience.

I'm not at the State of the Union speech tonight because these are not normal times and Democrats have to stop behaving normally.

And I'm not at the State of the Union speech tonight because you're not going to hear about the State of the Union.

You are going to hear lie after lie.

You are going to hear attack after attack.

You are going to see grandstanding.

The true State of the Union is this.

This union is in crisis right now.

are by lawless law enforcement.

Our democracy is wilting under ceaseless attack from a president who wants to be a despot.

Millions of Americans are losing their health care because the president has chosen

corruption to pad the pockets of his billionaire friends instead of helping average Americans.

You're not going to hear any of that in that speech tonight.

But by being here for the people's State of the Union, you are going to hear the real story of America, a story of an America that is under siege, but a story of America that is not going to take it, that is going to fight back, and is going to reclaim this country for everything that is good and right about the United States of America.

Ferris Day is going to talk to you tonight about the state of immigrant and refugee America.

ICE is out of control.

It is disappearing legal immigrants.

It is tear gassing elementary schools.