Veronica Escobar: “I appreciate the opportunity to advocate for the needs of my community.”

I have been so pleased and honored to serve on this Quality of Life Panel and so impressed with the leadership by our chair and by our ranking member.

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.

It is really tragic because our Nation deserves bipartisan solutions that make sense and that help our country.

I thank my friend, Hillary Scholten. I so appreciate her leadership and her support of the bill. Mr. Speaker, I was born and raised on the U.S.-Mexico border. I am a third-generation border resident. My children are both adults. My son…