In the midst of an ongoing government shutdown over an immigration debate, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) told Bold TV that the United States is failing to live up to its creed enshrined on the base of the Statue of Liberty. “I believe it’s immoral for a nation that asks for us to bring us your poor and your huddled masses yearning to be free to now build up a wall in the 21st century, when, for generations people have come to this nation based on famine, based on war, based on a whole host of other concerns and economic hardships,” Clarke said. “And now in the 21st century, we’re saying ‘Oh we have to build a wall.’ I believe that it flies in the face of everything that this nation has been built upon and that continues to keep it strong.” Clarke acknowledged that the United States is facing an opioid crisis, but she said erecting a wall on the southern border would have little effect. “They’re [drugs] also coming from our own U.S. companies,” Clarke continued. “Many of these individuals are taking painkillers. So I don’t think that we can globalize this issue to the extent where we’re saying…
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