Statement by Rep. Mfume on the Humanitarian Crisis on the Southern Border
September 25, 2021
September 25, 2021
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following statement:
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"Working to prevent illegal immigration is difficult. But no hardship excuses the hard truth that men on horseback whipping Haitian refugees to exercise so-called crowd control harkens back to the rounding up of runaway slaves searching for a better life.
"I call on the Biden Administration to halt repatriation of Haitians for the following reasons:
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"Working to prevent illegal immigration is difficult. But no hardship excuses the hard truth that men on horseback whipping Haitian refugees to exercise so-called crowd control harkens back to the rounding up of runaway slaves searching for a better life.
"I call on the Biden Administration to halt repatriation of Haitians for the following reasons:
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