Page 3 - Poverty Issue News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

During the 2010 earthquake. and this one is a stronger, much stronger earthquake. and it went into an area that's more impoverished. so the challenge is double in this case. now, what needs to happen in the future, certainly, is to build with codes. like basically a lot of areas in port-au-prince is following right now. but it's going to be a long-term challenge. haiti's biggest challenge, of course, is the precarity of its economy. it's certainly a poverty issue and something that has to be tackled long-term. >> just one hardship after another for the haitian people. but i know seeing it firs...

They're not coming here because of fear of persecution from the government because that's what they're claiming, right? if it's really a poverty issue, then none of them qualify for asylum. let's shut the door right now. he just admitting it's a big fraud. they are coming out because of fear of persecution, the economy -- it's about poverty and about a better life. that's not asylum. >> laura: such as economic circumstances. but that does not qualify as a condition for asylum. otherwise millions and millions and millions of people would want to, right now because they live in places where mayb...

Jaywalking. >> if you want to make illegal immigration legal, that's just a problem on the border. it's going to increase bring his plane is ridiculous. i guess he's admitting now they aren't coming here because of fear of persecution from the government. because that's what they are claiming, right? if it's really a poverty issue, none of them qualify for asylum. let's shut the door right now. he just admitted that asylum is a big problem but not coming because of freedom fear of persecution, they are coming because the economy, poverty, better life life, . >> laura: that's economic circumsta...

Black voters of that on a national stage if you can't do it in your own hometown? you're currently polling at 1% with black voters as opposed to joe biden's 46%, and even if it's not a violence issue, you've got a poverty issue. you have had an economic turnaround in your city, yet 40% of black people in south bend are dealing with poverty. >> that's right. it's a terrible inequality. i didn't create it, but i've been working side by side with members of the community to address it. it's why we've taken so many steps to invest in underinvested areas to try to deal with these crushing inequalit...

Really given what's going on at home, should you be skipping this debate? >> no. we have to be able to do many things at once but this is a moment when my community is in anguished and we have been on the ground working with community leaders and members, trying to make sure the facts can emerge but also recognizing that the anguish over what happened is not only about a family that lost a loved one but also this ties to a much bigger set of issues locally and nationally we have been dealing with. the feeling among black americans that they are being policed to death and making sure that we ha...