Congresswoman Clarke knocks new immigration policy

NEW YORK (CMC):

Jamaican-American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has criticised President Donald Trump’s broadened assault on Caribbean and other immigrants by issuing new regulation aimed at legal immigrants who wish to remain in the United States.

Trump has said that these immigrants should be removed from the country if their financial resources make them a burden on US taxpayers.

Clarke said that the public charge rule announcement has yet again come on the wrong side of history, treating immigrants as less than human.

“The public charge rule means law-abiding immigrants will be put in an impossible position, having to forfeit healthcare, nutrition, and housing programmes in order to get a green card or receive other lawful status,” said Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants.

“Every single one of us has needed help from somebody else at some point in our lives, and this administration has lost sight of this fact with this compassionless public charge rule publication,” she said.