“Pride Month is a time to celebrate and remember all the activists and trailblazers who have fought for LGBTQ+ rights and the progress we have made. But the fight is far from over. I'm proud to reaffirm my commitment to protecting the…

Your Administration either failed to account for this predictable result or proceeded despite it.

A legitimate civil detention purpose requires some relationship between confinement and an actual need, such as flight risk, danger, or the lawful execution of removal.

Pride Month is a time to celebrate and remember all the activists and trailblazers who have fought for LGBTQ+ rights and the progress we have made.

This administration’s sweeping mandatory detention policy is so lawless.

Congress and the public are entitled to know whether these facilities are safe, whether medical care is adequate, whether contractors are meeting their obligations, and whether DHS is taking meaningful action when people die on its watch.

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

These and other injustices people with disabilities experience in our digital world must end.

No child should ever be put in a situation where they lose their life protecting a friend from gunfire.

There is no statutory preference for consular processing, and legislative history shows that Congress has long maintained a strong preference in favor of allowing eligible noncitizens to adjust status in the United States.

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

The Founders gave us a republic. The question on this anniversary is whether we have the wisdom and the courage to keep it.

President Trump promised, again and again, that he would lower costs for Americans ‘on day one.’ In reality, Illinoisans have been footing the bill for the President’s haphazard trade policies, his cuts to health care coverage, and his war…

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly promised no more wars and lower costs—and instead, Illinoisans are getting the exact opposite.

How many times have I heard my Republican colleagues say, ‘I’m not against immigration. I’m against illegal immigration.’ Really? If you eliminate the legal process where an individual seeking status in America can assert their rights…

I look forward to working with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to hold President Trump to the same standard they held President Obama to 11 years ago.