FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

May 19, 2025

MEDIA CONTACT: 

e: jessica.myers@mail.house.gov

c: 202.913.0126

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement:

“With a single shameful Supreme Court ruling, more than 350,000 Venezuelans who were promised and granted refuge from the brutal dictatorship they fled will find themselves in the grips of that regime again. Make no mistake: this is a humanitarian betrayal of unprecedented proportions. 

“Weaponizing the suffering of the most vulnerable people on the planet just to appear tough on immigration to his base is a new level of despicable behavior from this president. To add insult to injury, while Trump shuffles Black and Brown people back to their countries, kidnaps legal residents, and condemns others to the most notorious prisons in the world, he chooses to offer asylum to South African Apartheid sympathizers. 

“Trump’s cruel and xenophobic agenda has been built on misinformation, scapegoating, and labeling all those looking for a better life as criminals. Today, the judicial branch has given him a pass to continue politicizing the struggles of migrants and furthering his unconstitutional immigration policies, and that is truly disgraceful.”

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