JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the Homeland
Security Committee and as a member of the Congressional Refugee Caucus,
I rise in strong support of H.R. 390, the ``Iraq and Syria Genocide
Emergency Relief and Accountability Act of 2017.''
This legislation makes clear that it is the policy of the United
States to ensure that assistance for humanitarian, stabilization, and
recovery needs is directed toward those individuals and communities
with the greatest need, including those individuals from communities of
religious and ethnic minorities, and communities of religious and
ethnic minorities, that have been identified as being at risk of
persecution, forced migration, acts of genocide, crimes against
humanity, or war crimes. Mr. Speaker, this legislation is a timely and important response to
acts of genocide and other war crimes committed by ISIS in a its
continuing effort to subjugate the Yazidi religious minority in Syria
and Iraq.