Veronica Escobar: “We need to give border communities the chance to receive just as much funding as other cities so they can revitalize…”

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.

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.

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…

This hearing is a very brazen effort to provide political cover to my Governor, Government Greg Abbott, who has unconstitutionally used State resources to try to impose the State's own immigration policies and laws.