Salud Ortiz Carbajal: “Innovation in maritime and Coast Guard assets is vital but we must proceed with caution.”

As states like California face increasingly frequent and intense wildfires, tools like FireGuard help us meet that threat. Using space-based commercial data will only make this program more effective.

And let me be clear, these militarized ICE raids are not how you keep our communities safe.

Today, I was at Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria where ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farm workers and our agricultural community.

But the current federal transit funding framework isn’t adequate for these communities, leaving too many of them without the support they need.