When Sen. Alex Padilla took the California Senate seat left by V.P. Kamala Harris, the American immigrant story achieved two remarkable milestones.
Harris’ election to the vice presidency marked the unprecedented ascendancy of the first woman, Black and Asian, to a top political office, while Padilla became the first ever Latino to represent California in the United States senate. After twenty seven years of fighting for immigrant rights, Alex Padilla is finally in a position to achieve the immigration reforms he has long pursued.
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In his new role Padilla has promised to restore humanity, dignity and respect to the immigration process, a commitment reflected in the new title he’s given to the immigration subcommittee. It will now be known as the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety.
By Victoria Spartz 40% of the Border Patrol workforce processing migrants instead of safeguarding the border.
Photos provided $400M per month in estimated profits for the drug cartels just from human trafficking. Spartz talked with Border Patrol and accessed the dire situation at hand. • • • • As a member of the Immigration Subcommittee, I have traveled to multiple sectors of the southern border in recent weeks, seeing first-hand the surge of migrants coming into the U.S. and what is undoubtedly a humanitarian and national security crisis.
I first joined Democrat colleagues to visit the El Paso sector before traveling to McAllen and Eagle Pass, Texas with Republican members of House Judiciary and the Republican Study Committee.
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Democrats Rebuff GOP Calls for Public Hearings on Border Crisis
Top Senate Democrats have rebuffed a GOP request to hold an ad hoc public hearing on the border crisis and to question Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership, saying that the annual DHS oversight hearing that will be scheduled “in due course” will provide an opportunity for Republicans to question administration officials about the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a sharply worded April 9 letter, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) wrote that when Republicans chaired the committee and subcommittee during President Donald Trump’s tenure, Democrats requests for hearings and oversight action on Trump’s border policies faced pushback.
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