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Thank you, Chairman Amodei.
Also, thank you to the minority staff, Faye Cobb and Raquel Spencer, along with my Legislative Director, Monica Garay, and the majority subcommittee staff, Michelle Reinshuttle and Jacqueline Ripke, for all they do in their roles on the Committee.
As you noted, the FY24 Legislative Branch bill before us contains $5.3 billion, excluding the $1.4 billion requested by the Senate. This total allocation of $6.7 billion is $252 million below the FY23 levels.
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Thank you, Madame Chair. Unfortunately, the DHS appropriations bill before this Committee today is a non-starter for immigrant communities like my own district, and I refuse to support it.
This overtly partisan bill provides $2.1 billion dollars in wasteful spending to build a needless border wall. It also significantly increases funds for ICE removal operations, which break up families, force immigrant communities to live in fear, and do not keep us safer.
WASHINGTON, DC --Representatives Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Nanette Barragán (CA-44) have introduced H.R.3689 - the American Aviation Diversity Act (AADA), key legislation intended to diversify the racial and ethnic makeup of the American aviation industry.
NEW YORK, NY – June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and today, Co-Chairs Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Representative Norma J. Torres (CA-35) relaunched the Congressional New Americans Caucus for the 118th Congress. The expanded, bipartisan Caucus is comprised of first-generation Members of Congress striving to promote and educate Congress on issues of importance to new Americans.
NEW YORK, NY – June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and today, Co-Chairs Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Representative Norma J. Torres (CA-35) relaunched the Congressional New Americans Caucus for the 118th Congress. The expanded, bipartisan Caucus is comprised of first-generation Members of Congress striving to promote and educate Congress on issues of importance to new Americans.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) issued the following statement on the decision by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua for 18 months.
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it would disburse an additional $104.7 million in emergency funding from the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) to New York City to support the ongoing efforts by local government and nonprofit entities to provide humanitarian relief to asylum seekers.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Jesús "Chuy" García (IL-04) sent a letter to President Joe Biden, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou urging the Biden administration to expeditiously utilize its statutory authority to redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals who have been continuously residing or physically present in the United States since May 2023.
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian, announced the Northern Manhattan Recovery Fund has awarded a new $450,000 grant to the Washington Heights Business Improvement District (BID) for its work to support the ongoing recovery of New York's 13th congressional district.
WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) has announced legislation to increase public safety and health standards by disincentivizing production at mink farms following confirmed outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, at nearly 18 fur farms across the United States.