| | Rep. [[Maxine Waters]] said, "I'm pissed. I'm unhappy and I'm not just unhappy with the cowboys who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them. I'm [unhappy] with the administration. ...he is the one that does not follow the constitution and would not allow those seeking refuge to petition to get into the country. What the hell are we doing here? What we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years. What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery … cowboys with their reins, again, whipping black people." Rep. [[Ayanna Pressley]] criticized the "cruel, the inhumane, and flat out racist treatment" of Haitian migrants: "We cannot and we must not look away in this moment....Instead of leading with compassion and grace, these families have been met with cruelty," Pressley claimed, saying those that have fled to America have been "rounded up like cattle, whipped, handcuffed, and detained....Haitian lives are black lives, and if we truly believe that [[black lives matter]], then we must reverse course."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-discuss-treatment-of-haitian-migrants-at-the-border-worse-than-what-we-witnessed-in-slavery</ref> | | Rep. [[Maxine Waters]] said, "I'm pissed. I'm unhappy and I'm not just unhappy with the cowboys who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them. I'm [unhappy] with the administration. ...he is the one that does not follow the constitution and would not allow those seeking refuge to petition to get into the country. What the hell are we doing here? What we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years. What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery … cowboys with their reins, again, whipping black people." Rep. [[Ayanna Pressley]] criticized the "cruel, the inhumane, and flat out racist treatment" of Haitian migrants: "We cannot and we must not look away in this moment....Instead of leading with compassion and grace, these families have been met with cruelty," Pressley claimed, saying those that have fled to America have been "rounded up like cattle, whipped, handcuffed, and detained....Haitian lives are black lives, and if we truly believe that [[black lives matter]], then we must reverse course."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-discuss-treatment-of-haitian-migrants-at-the-border-worse-than-what-we-witnessed-in-slavery</ref> |