Yvette Clarke: “we certainly must hold the perpetrators of these attacks responsible, but we also must bolster our defenses”

As someone who has called Brooklyn home for decades, I know firsthand the challenges that communities like East Flatbush have faced because of years of disinvestment, a shortage of affordable housing, and longstanding health disparities.

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for yielding. I rise today on behalf of the people of the Ninth District of New York, the Clarke family, and myself to remember a true gentleman from New Jersey, the honorable and incomparable…

You should have received a letter or have been CC'd on a letter regarding the concern about individuals being returned at this stage who could be sent into harm's way.

This is not politics as usual. This is a defining moral moment for our country.