Immigration
October 7, 2025
“As usual, Greg Abbott is an eager accomplice to Trump's wrongdoing. The illegal deployment of U.S. troops against U.S. citizens has never been about crime or immigration; Trump only wants to normalize the misuse of our military against his opponents. Having previously declared that ‘I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,’ Trump seeks a military personally loyal to him, not the Constitution—the kind of subservient military that any able dictator requires to stay in power.”
Issues:Immigration
October 6, 2025
A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. A Kansas task force focused on stemming the flow of fentanyl has been redirected. Highway checkpoints near the southwest border—some on roads long identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed.
September 25, 2025
“We are horrified at the shooting that has taken place at the ICE processing facility in Dallas and our prayers are with the victims and the first responders. We unequivocally condemn all forms of violence and urge everyone to refrain from rhetoric that fans the flames—from all sides."
Issues:Immigration
February 7, 2024
Debating immigration laws in Washington is so fundamentally toxic that Congress hasn’t made major changes to dealing with the border in decades. And it might not for some time.
Issues:Immigration
February 5, 2024
Senator James Lankford, the primary Republican negotiator on the Senate’s recently revealed border deal, is running out of patience with the rest of his party.
Issues:Immigration
July 21, 2023
WASHINGTON — Today, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio), together with many colleagues, including the entire Texas Democratic delegation and the chairs of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional Asian-Pacific American Caucus, urged the Biden administration to assert its authority over federal immigration policy and foreign relations to investigate Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border operation and pursue legal action to stop the extraordinary cruelty against migrants detailed in recent reports from the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle, and the New York Times.
Issues:Immigration
May 11, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) spoke on the House Floor to oppose Republicans’ so-called “Secure the Border Act,” which does nothing to fix America’s immigration system but would wreck the economy, destroy the asylum system, and criminalize visa overstays.
Issues:Immigration
December 13, 2022
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans from Texas made a show of force in the Capitol last week, announcing a border security package they said will be a top priority for the incoming GOP majority in January.
Issues:Immigration
December 11, 2022
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans from Texas made a show of force in the Capitol last week, announcing a border security package they said will be a top priority for the incoming GOP majority in January.
Issues:Immigration
October 29, 2021
More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. attorney general to investigate legal problems that have arisen out of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative to arrest and jail migrants on state criminal charges.
Issues:Immigration