Nanette Barragán

As the climate crisis worsens communities of color are bearing the burden of a lack of under-investment in our infrastructure.

I look forward to a frank conversation on CBP's use of facial recognition technology and how Congress can conduct meaningful oversight.

The opioid crisis in the United States claims more lives each year than firearms, suicide, homicide, or motor vehicle crashes.

The past few years have weighed heavily on the American people.

Migrants seeking asylum are not responsible for the vast majority of drugs arriving in our communities.

I am grateful to see this administration tackling the challenge head-on.

We must do more to protect American lives.

Tackling the drug crisis is one of our most pressing National security, law enforcement, and public health challenges.

Failure at the border looks like when kids were dying under the prior administration, failure looks like when kids and women and children are being raped because of this inhumane process of policy, of Remain in Mexico, that you all think…

Congress must challenge the Government's reliance on any policy or practice which results in family separation.

Congress must support these efforts and push for a Federally-mandated 'best interests of the child standard.'

Ending Title 42 is the first step toward fulfilling our minimum obligations under the law.

Congress must support the Biden administration's efforts to restore asylum and prioritize the best interests of children seeking safety.

Congress must wholeheartedly support the termination of this illegal and inhumane policy.

The repeal of Title 42 should not lead to alternative assaults on the right to seek asylum or to migrate.

If our Nation does not afford due process to those who are most in need, we are failing in our basic duty to fellow children of God and degrading our domestic and international legal obligations as well as our global leadership on human…

The largest terror threat is from not the Southern Border. It is the Northern Border.

The rule of law is that you can come to a port and you can apply for asylum. We are not following that rule of law.

The more that we should anticipate that we will see more irregular crossings. So, I invite Congress to work on real solutions.

Opening ports of entry along the Southern Border is a crucial step that the Biden administration should take immediately.

Title 42 is a CDC authority. It is an authority, a public health authority, to stop the spread of COVID-19.

I am just disappointed that the Department still needs more time to prepare to end Title 42.

We must also recognize that Title 42 did not stop migration to the United States.

I am willing to work with them to make sure they are prepared to process people in an orderly and humane manner.

Ukrainians should be allowed to enter the United States and seek humanitarian protection. But so should Haitians and Hondurans and Guatemalans, Africans, and others fleeing violence.