Veronica Escobar: “I am from El Paso, Texas, the beautiful, vibrant, new Ellis Island, which is on the U.S./Mexico border.”

Would you please share with us, with the Committee and the American public, why it is really a terrible consequence for any State, whether it is Texas or any State, what the challenges are with a State deciding it is going to create its…

I want to remind the Committee that industrial large-scale factory farms are the biggest source of water pollution and water use in the USA.

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.

We must strengthen the local food systems by expanding urban farming, investing in food security, and continuing to invest in food assistance programs like SNAP and WIC.