Yvette Clarke: “It should not be long, idling wait times at our ports of entry, and it should not be unnecessary, expensive, ugly…”

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.

Not since Jim Crow have we seen this level of systematic disenfranchisement of Black voters.

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…

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