{"id":7324,"date":"2023-01-26T00:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T00:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2023-01-26T00:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T00:50:55","slug":"cbc-begins-busy-2023-meeting-with-biden-administration-over-border-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/cbc-begins-busy-2023-meeting-with-biden-administration-over-border-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC Begins \u2018Busy\u2019 2023 Meeting with Biden Administration Over Border Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent<\/strong>
\n@StacyBrownMedia<\/strong><\/p>\n

While House Republicans spent a week publicly bickering and 15 rounds voting to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California as Speaker, the Congressional Black Caucus was already hard at work on behalf of its millions of constituents.<\/p>\n

In the 118th Congress, the CBC will have 58 members, nine of whom are new to the chamber.<\/p>\n

Steven Horsford, a Democrat from Nevada, was chosen as chair.<\/p>\n

The rest of the executive committee is made up of Democrats from New York, Louisiana, Georgia, and Washington: Yvette Clarke, Troy Carter, Lucy McBath, and Marilyn Strickland.<\/p>\n

Due to the lengthy speakership vote, Congress could not do business during the first week of the new legislative year.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Horsford and other CBC members still managed to talk about one of their 2023 goals.<\/p>\n

Members were worried about the Biden administration\u2019s plan to stop people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti from crossing the border.<\/p>\n

Horsford and Rep. Yvette Clarke of Brooklyn, NY, said that the government\u2019s policy, which is very similar to that of the Trump administration, should be looked at again immediately. Even though Biden\u2019s new program intends to speed up the asylum process, \u201cthe reality is that the administration\u2019s actions have the potential to threaten the safety and humanity of migrants,\u201d as Horsford put it.<\/p>\n

Horsford stated, \u201cAmerica is a nation of immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that the right to access could save lives in many situations.<\/p>\n

Horsford and Clarke said that the government\u2019s policy, which is very similar to that of the Trump administration, should be looked at again immediately.<\/p>\n

Even though Biden\u2019s new program intends to speed up the asylum process, \u201cthe reality is that the administration\u2019s actions have the potential to threaten the safety and humanity of migrants,\u201d as Horsford put it.<\/p>\n

Horsford\u2019s parents are native Trinidadians, while Clarke\u2019s ancestors came to the United States from Jamaica.<\/p>\n

During a meeting with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which Horsford led, the topic of Haitian migrants was central.<\/p>\n

Horsford says, \u201cMembers talked about the real-life experiences of their constituents with migration and their worries about the continuation of Title 42. They also stressed the importance of giving everyone fair and equal access to asylum and other ways to move.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s pandemic-era Title 42 law allowed the United States to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers on public health grounds.<\/p>\n

Horsford praised the CBC and Mayorkas for \u201ctaking the right step in the right direction\u201d by collaborating on a government-wide strategy to address migration at entry points.<\/p>\n

The caucus\u2019 chair said the CBC is eager to collaborate with Biden on finding \u201chumanitarian-focused solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CBC has not yet released all its priorities for 2023 due to the delay in electing a speaker, but it expects a busy session.<\/p>\n

Maxwell Frost (D-FL), the youngest new member at age 25, is the first person from Generation Z to serve in Congress.<\/p>\n

Summer Lee, 35, is the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

After being sworn in for the first time on January 3, 1991, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, now 85, is beginning her 16th term this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not know if we have ever needed you more than we do now,\u201d said Marcia Fudge, the former chair of the CBC and the current secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n

The CBC \u201chas been the conscience of the Congress, the moral center that ensures that the people in communities whose blood, sweat, and tears built this country are never forgotten by this storied institution for over 50 years,\u201d Fudge asserted.<\/p>\n

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