Immigration
"I think it's easy for people like you and me who wear suits and ties and work in offices to cast aspersions on those with a tenth-grade education . . . But let's talk about some of these folks with a tenth-grade education . . . I have had the opportunity to meet over the years many farmworkers who have had families die under brutal conditions in the heat so that you or I can have less expensive orange juice, cheaper artichokes, or less expensive garlic . . . and I just want to suggest that these people have given far more to American society than you or I ever will." - Congressman Ted W. Lieu
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement calling for ICE and CBP interior operations to stand down its operations across the country following another immigration enforcement-related shooting in Minnesota.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA), and Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, introduced legislation that guarantees individuals held at immigration detention centers have access to congressional constituent casework services upon request.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled to allow the Trump Administration to continue carrying out immigration raids in California.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after voting against Donald Trump's Big Ugly Bill, H.R. 1. The bill passed the House 218-214 and will now be signed into law. In California, more than 2.3 million people will lose health insurance and 368,000 could lose access to food assistance because of this bill.
House Democrats are demanding information from the Department of Defense about an incident in which Marines detained a civilian in Los Angeles last week.
WASHINGTON – Today, House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) joined House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene for a press conference. During the press conference, Congressman Lieu denounced looters and violence exacerbated by President Trump federalizing the National Guard and deploying Marines to Los Angeles.
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House Republicans on Wednesday killed a measure that would have stopped ICE from being able to deport or detain U.S. citizens. The measure was originally an amendment introduced by Representative Pamila Jayapal to President Trump’s massive budget bill.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Donald Beyer (D-VA) and Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) reintroduced the Protecting Data at the Border Act, which would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching an American’s laptop and phone at a port of entry.
The Trump administration, including prominent figures like Defense Secretary Hegseth and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, is downplaying the severity of the fallout from the Signal group chat incident. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) calls for Hegseth's resignation or firing, discusses DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's visit to El Salvador, and more.
Mary Fox wasn’t expecting a fight when she drove to the Los Angeles Passport Agency on Wilshire Boulevard last month to get a new passport. As a trans woman, she worried about President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that it would be “the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” but in the blue state of California—where the Gender Recognition Act, in effect since 2019, created a nonbinary gender category on state birth certificates and allowed residents to change their gender markers—she assumed it would be some time before the order was enforced.