Yvette Clarke: “Haiti's minimum wage is among the lowest among countries that export apparel, and it is the lowest in the Western…”

People don't choose to leave their families and communities, their culture, their language on a whim. Most often people leave because their very lives are at stake.

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

Silence in this moment is not neutrality — it is complicity.

Let me thank my dear colleague, Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, along with her partner, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, for anchoring this evening's Special Order hour honoring Shirley Chisolm. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on this…