Raúl Grijalva

U.S. citizens are providing both the supply and the demand for fentanyl and other illegal drugs. The organized criminal syndicates on both sides of the borders are the ones profiting off the billions and billions of dollars from the misery…

We have heard the argument today, and indeed for years now, that migrants crossing our border are the primary ones responsible for the tens of thousands of American lives tragically lost to fentanyl overdoses each year. It is a tragedy…

Yes, elections do have consequences, and one of the responsibilities that elections provide to the United States Congress and the House of Representatives, let me remind my colleagues, is our broken immigration system, and that is a…

As a reminder, seeking asylum is a human, legal right protected by international law and United States law, period. Instead of wishing that that was not the case, Republicans should work with Democrats and the administration to move a…

I think a soft reminder is important now, as we point to these asylum seekers and those who are seeking refugee status in this country and those who are going through the immigration process. It is important to note that they are not the…

Apparently, the plan that has Mr. Miller salivating includes mass roundups, mass incarceration, permanently ending DACA, and the construction of camps to hold migrants waiting to be processed and presumably later expelled from the country…

The Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) firmly opposes the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, which represents an unprecedented giveaway of public lands to mining corporations.

In closing, the comments by Representative Neguse and Chairman Westerman were appropriate. This is a link to the history of this Nation that needs to be acknowledged and needs to be there for the rest of America to see, appreciate, and…

This Interior and Environment appropriations bill, much like the House Republican appropriations bills that have come before it, is an extreme MAGA manifesto. It is not at all representative of the values of the American people. This bill…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think we are in a really important phase.

One of the things that I see is that erosion of that public institution, and part of it is trying to control what people read and do not read.

The importance of public schools, and in particular, the value of libraries, and the value of a diverse opportunity for all students to be able to access information.

I think access is the most important thing.

Are we going to vote again on the Floor or should we make other plans?

The fact that Biden in this latest fence wall construction waived 18 laws, including NEPA, I opposed that

When it is convenient to use it as an issue, NEPA is wonderful. When it is in the way of a mine or an extraction or a drill, then it is absolutely awful and we have to get rid of it.

I think consistency would be important for your presentations before Congress.

Well, I am a lawyer, so I am talking about what is legal and what is not legal.

The wall doesn't work, in part by demonstrating that it has been breached so often that there are full-time welding crews down there to do the repairs.

H.R. 2 is the panacea and fundamentally will not solve the issue, neither will a wall.

It doesn't deal with the crisis that we are seeing globally.

It ends asylum entirely as a concept and as a legal responsibility in this country and internationally.

I think that one of the centerpieces that my Republican colleagues have promoted as a solution is H.R. 2, Secure the Borders Act.

That is not a solution. That is a way to try to seek attention, politically.