Veronica Escobar: “Frankly, if there's anyone to blame for the challenges at our border, it is the U.S. Congress.”

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.

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.