"This is tragic and unfortunate, and because of that, I think I got a lot of support from all over the country calling them out for being a bunch of xenophobes."
"We overstayed our visa. We then adhered to the path that the law provided us, which was to go back to the Dominican Republic, get our green card, came back as a green card holder, became a U.S. citize..."
"We will not be intimidated as a community by threats, and we're here to watch our D.A.'s back."
"I want to thank you for your recent compensation program for flights delay and cancel and the dashboard page that you have available for consumers."
"I also want to stress to my colleagues in the committee that this also provides a social equity component that I think is so important to the communities that we represent."
"We stand committed to working through any of those to make sure that this is delivered now that the funding is in place."
"The cost of flying back home for many of these families is exorbitant."
"We are looking forward to getting to a conclusion on a modernized agreement for what is the largest Caribbean market for U.S. travelers."
"I think that maybe even from the Reagan years forward the Federal Government has become an absentee landlord."
"It requires an investment. But it has a direct impact on the quality of life, obviously, of all Americans."
"NYCHA has 360,000 residents, and it has over 177,000 apartments. But they are in dilapidated conditions."
"The projection is that a 20-year capital investment need is for $78 billion."