Representative Hakeem Jeffries News

Those words helped to sum up the reaction of immigration advocates, civil libertarians, elected officials, foreign consular representatives and immigrants to a mind-numbing appraisal of the Obama administration's immigration policy which has resulted in almost two million people being deported in five years to the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, ... (more)

Watching President Obama's deeply partisan speech Tuesday on his health care law, you might have thought he was making a play for the midterm elections, with red meat rhetoric that could make Democratic base feel good again, if at least for a day, about a major legislative accomplishment gone awry.

The letter, which was sent after a meeting with representatives of the Union of Belarusian Youth in the USA, Hakeem Jeffries expresses his 'serious concert' about the growing human rights crisis in Belarus and the trampling of democratic values, says the press service of the organising committee to create the Belarusian Christian Democracy party.