Yvette Clarke: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

I am deeply disturbed by Congresswoman Greene's attacks on HIAS, originally known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aids Society.

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.

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.

We are here today because Republicans are demagoguing and exploiting the xenophobic and white supremacist ideologies that are fueling the immigration debate in this Nation.