Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) issued the following statement on the continuing resolution to extend government funding through February 8, 2019: “Republican leadership has failed to govern. By choosing to pursue a second CR instead of passing appropriations bills that truly meet our nation’s needs, Republicans have failed to provide government agencies with the certainty they need to serve the American people. This is not how the Appropriations process should be run. “As the top De...
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Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division Bryan Jarrett calling for a comprehensive DOL strategy to enforce child labor laws. Their letter follows a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study – commissioned at their request – which found that child labor accounts for a devastatingly high amount of work-related fatalities in the United States, especia...
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Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, signed a letter led by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and signed by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security; Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman Elect of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA...
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Congresswomen Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen calling for the immediate closure of Tornillo, a tent city facility for child migrants. The Trump administration has expanded capacity and extended the contract for this so-called temporary shelter multiple times this year despite prevalent issues at the facility that put ...
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Congresswomen Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued the following statement about today’s release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on child labor – a report which was written as a result of a letter that Reps. Roybal-Allard and DeLauro sent to the GAO in 2016: “The GAO report’s findings are damning. This report confirms that child labor is contributing to a devastating amount of fatalities in the United States – disproportionately so in the agricultural ...
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Today, Congresswomen Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), the co-chairs of the Women’s Working Group on Immigration Reform, sent a letter to President Trump urging him to rescind his administration’s interim rule and his presidential proclamations that effectively created an asylum ban. On November 9, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice issued an interim rule that would bar individuals fleeing violence or persecution from seeking asylum i...
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Congresswomen Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), the co-chairs of the Women’s Working Group on Immigration Reform, issued the following statement about news that the Trump Administration is once again considering a cruel family separation policy on the southern U.S. border: “We are deeply concerned that the Trump Administration is considering new policies to separate mothers and fathers from their children. The Administration’s original zero-tolerance policy tore thousand...
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Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Senators Mazie K. Hirono (HI), Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), and Kamala D. Harris (CA) have introduced the Child Trafficking Victims Protection and Welfare Act, which expands protections for vulnerable children in the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The bill has been introduced in the House as H.R. 7047, and in the Senate as S. 3558. When children cross the border into the U.S., seeking protection either as unaccompanied children or ...
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Congresswomen Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), the co-chairs of the Women’s Working Group on Immigration Reform, and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) recently led a group of 72 members of Congress in sending a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar condemning the Trump Administration’s transfer of more than 1,600 children in the dead of night to an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) tent city in Tornillo, Texas. The letter also ex...
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Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen requesting that they brief Members of Congress on the prolonged detention of unaccompanied children. Thei...
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