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This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, landmark legislation that outlawed racist voter disenfranchisement and expanded voting rights to Black Americans whose ability to cast a ballot had been severely limited, especially in Virginia and other states in the South. U.S. Rep.
To kick off connecting with her district during recess, Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Va., hosted a town hall geared toward seniors today. Around 60 attendees discussed their concerns about Social Security, Medicare, immigration and the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
“I call it the ‘One Big Ugly Bill,’ ‘The Big, Massive Frankenstein,’ whatever you want to call it,” McClellan said. “The bill that was signed on July 4. There’s a lot in there, and I’m not going to touch on every aspect of it.”
U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, is pushing back against Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent claimsthat all 2,500 immigrants detained in statewide operations since March were violent offenders, saying Monday she doesn’t believe it — and won’t — until the administration provides proof.
The congresswoman says people aren't showing up to court “because they're afraid.”
US Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D–4th) met with officials at the Chesterfield County Courthouse Monday to voice concern that migrants who need to appear in court for relatively minor offenses are now choosing not to show up entirely to avoid being detained by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.
Riverside Regional Jail in Prince George County has contracted with Immigration & Customs Enforcement authorities to house detainees at its facility, but questions loom over the details of the compact. That has one Virginia lawmaker worried, particularly about the conditions of the detention.
A Virginia congresswoman is speaking out about federal immigration authorities at the Chesterfield County Circuit Courthouse after more than a dozen arrests were made there in June.
Rep. Jennifer McClellan visited the courthouse Monday to discuss what she calls "overly aggressive immigration enforcement activities."
Concerns are growing at the Chesterfield County Court Complex after ICE agents detained more than a dozen people over the course of two months.
“These are folks who want to get marriage licenses, they want to come in become a notary, pay their fines, whatever it is, and they’re still scared. Even U.S. citizens are scared to come to court right now,” Amanda Pohl, Chesterfield County Circuit Court Clerk, said.
Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan was at the Chesterfield County Courthouse Monday morning.
McClellan’s district includes the Richmond suburb where federal immigration agents have arrested over a dozen people inside the court complex, but she’s also raising doubts about numbers coming from Governor Glenn Youngkin’s office.
Virginia Democratic Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) says actions taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at courthouses are making Virginia less safe.
“You can’t have liberty and justice for all when you have brown and Spanish-speaking people afraid to come to court,” McClellan told reporters on Monday outside the Chesterfield County Courthouse, where at least 15 people have been detained by ICE since June.
Seventy-three members of Congress, led by U.S. Reps. Jennifer McClellan, D-VA, and Paul Tonko, D-NY, wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to stop the roll back of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).