Veronica Escobar: “This request is very important because our Land Ports of Entry network needs key improvements.”

These are strike plans. There must be a broad investigation of how compromised our national security is because of their shocking incompetence.

There are so many critical issues that our Nation is looking to us to address.

I regrettably could not be present today to vote on the Floor proceedings before the House. Had I been present, I would have voted: NO on Roll Call No. 276, NO on Roll Call No. 277, YEA on Roll Call 278, and NO on Roll Call No. 279…

ICE no longer plans to detain up to 8,500 immigrants in the facilities as originally envisioned, and instead will convert the property into an ICE campus.