Yvette Clarke: “I, along with a number of my colleagues, have urged you not to harm local communities in this rulemaking.”

We treat everybody the same. It doesn't matter where they come from.

I believe that we as a Nation, particularly a Nation of immigrants, have an obligation to bring our immigration system into the 21st Century so that we can live up to the creed of our Nation.

Good evening, I am Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, proudly representing New York's Ninth Congressional District located in Brooklyn, New York. I thank my colleagues--Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a…

in the centennial year of Black History Month, I rise today as just one voice in the continuous and collective effort to celebrate the incomparable Congresswoman Shirley Anita Chisholm to the degree that she deserves. For her legacy of…