Yvette Clarke: “Thank you both. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.”

The typical reason is the same as for most migrants, for work or a better life.

Our victory—while monumental—does not change the truth that this war never should have began, and never would have began, had the president not disgraced America and our laws to ensure that it did.

I really think that as part of a Committee on Homeland Security we have an obligation to really bring our immigration laws into the 21st Century and do it in a bipartisan manner.

Just 700 miles from our border, the Nation of Haiti is facing an unprecedented crisis. Gangs control their capital city, Port-au-Prince, and every-day citizens are being terrorized by brutal murderers and kidnappings.