Thank you for 17 years before I was in elected office, I was a fair housing attorney in Richmond, and this is a topic that means a lot to me.

For over two decades, Greta has been a true champion of affordable and accessible housing.

Key to addressing the shortage of units and bringing down costs for families is, as my friend Speaker Shekarchi from Rhode Island would say, production, production, production.

This is thanks in large part to important steps Congress and the Biden-Harris administration have taken to increase the housing supply.

Now, Donald Trump's rhetoric has been dividing us and stoking anti-immigrant hate, I believe, since he first came down that escalator in 2015...

You call those durable skills in your opening testimony. I like that better than soft skills.

Now, 2 weeks ago, during a bizarre debate performance, we saw, of course, the former President repeat manufactured conspiracies about immigrants.

Asylum exists for an important historical reason. It is a legacy of World War II.

There are differences of opinion around this table and at the witness table.

We have to fix that. That is the reality.

Yes, yes. Dr. Kimbrough, you used the phrase, we should expand skills based training, in your testimony.

If the federal government were to increase the amount of allocation that went out to the states, we would be able to produce or preserve more quality, affordable housing.

Do you have to have a college degree to get a lot of Federal jobs? And the answer is no.

If you have one that works, you know, why you know, turn yourself into a pretzel to come up with something new.

It is because some folks in Congress, and certainly Donald Trump, think that bashing immigrants will win this election.

the outcome of hearings of this Committee has supported my claim that from the very beginning of the creation of this Select Subcommittee that his has been the gaslighting to the ninth degree, a tremendous projection of the highest order

the United States has amongst the lowest inflationary rates of any industrialized country in the world right now.

So, while we are bemoaning the alleged mistreatment of certain individuals, including some here today, which may or may not be true, we are escalating it with actual threats that could lead to violence, even death.