Yvette Clarke: “It is important for the safety of our country to come together today in this joint hearing and to discuss the…”

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.

Just 700 miles from our border, the Nation of Haiti is facing an unprecedented crisis. Gangs control their capital city, Port-au-Prince, and every-day citizens are being terrorized by brutal murderers and kidnappings.

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

Mr. Speaker, I rise on this day in opposition to the vicious, violent, unconstitutional, and illegal war Donald Trump and his administration continue to wage against our immigrant neighbors. On the President's orders, the Department of…