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Immigration

February 15, 2018

WASHINGTON- Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after it was reported that FBI Director Christopher Wray discussed the counterintelligence threat of Chinese nationals in the U.S.


February 7, 2018

The racist insult against Dreamers by President Donald Trump's chief of staff was so toxic Tuesday that Fox News Channel ignored it in prime time while CNN and MSNBC played it up in heavy rotation.

Issues: Immigration

February 7, 2018

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Tuesday suggested that some young immigrants eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program failed to apply for the legal protections because they were too afraid — or "too lazy to get off their asses."

Issues: Immigration

February 2, 2018
Opinion: Op-Eds

I went into the State of the Union address trying to keep an open mind. President Donald Trump spent the first year of his presidency spewing hateful ideas and promoting policies harmful to our democratic institutions and Americans. Still, I had hoped the president would take steps to unify our increasingly fractured nation. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

Issues: Civil Rights and Social Justice Environment & Animal Welfare Immigration National Security and Foreign Affairs

January 10, 2018

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D – Los Angeles County) led a letter co-signed by 11 Members of Congress from Southern California urging U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to reconsider its new onerous submission requirements for congressional offices inquiring on behalf of constituents.

Issues: Immigration

October 13, 2017

On September 18, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") published a notice in the Federal Register redefining the scope of records (so-called "A-Files") the agency keeps on immigrants, aliens, and naturalized citizens to include social media information and other public-facing data.

Issues: Immigration

October 4, 2017

Lawmakers are trying come up with a solution for thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children as the Oct. 5 deadline to renew the immigrants' status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program approaches.

Issues: Immigration

September 30, 2017

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) is a naturalized American citizen, having emigrated from Taiwan as a young child.

Issues: Immigration

September 29, 2017
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke asking her to delay a newly-proposed rule updating the Department’s electronic immigration system until Congress is provided more details. As a naturalized citizen, Mr. Lieu is alarmed that this broad-stroke policy to collect the social media information of anyone who has immigrated to the United States, regardless of status, could have massive privacy and constitutional implications.
Issues: Immigration