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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).
Katina Moss was surprised to receive a letter in the mail indicating she qualified for Medicaid coverage.
Moss, 51, who lives in Richmond, said she applied for coverage in 2020 or 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She completed the required forms online but was not sure if she had finished all of them.
As budget talks heat up in Washington, Southside Richmond resident Dana Wyatt is bracing for impact. After years of waiting for a housing choice voucher — a federally-funded program that operates like a rent coupon for qualifying tenants — she now fears she could lose it and once again become rent-burdened.
Several times during Rep. Jennifer McClellan’s town hall meeting June 2 at Virginia State University, the same question was asked but in different ways: “What can Democrats do to keep Donald Trump and the Republicans in check?”
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat, who represents the 4th District, held a town hall meeting recently to update citizens about issues and to hear their concerns.
Supervisor Dr. Barbara Jarrett Harris, Chair, Brunswick County Board of Supervisors, called the meeting to order and Supervisor Glenda Jackson Gilliam offered the invocation and led everyone in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan spoke straight, framing this moment in American history in two ways: A reckoning with our nation’s founding ideals of liberty and equality and a warning that the current political climate is stress-testing the very foundations of American democracy.
In the 1880s, my great grandfather founded a school in their rural community because the state of Alabama did not provide a good education to Black children.