Immigration

This delegation trip marks approximately one year since the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy was implemented on January 25, 2019. Under the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, thousands of families are being forced to wait in dangerous border towns and makeshift refugee camps in Mexico as they go through the asylum process, which can take months Read more

Wasserman Schultz helped lead fellow House Democrats in passing robust and essential appropriations bills that achieve significant victories for families across the nation, especially in South Florida. Read more

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will travel to South Florida to discuss efforts to peacefully transition to democracy in Venezuela. Read more

"It is the Administration’s own excessive enforcement actions – which violate Congressional intent – and its cruel, unprecedented asylum policies that are being used to justify DHS’s notification." Read more

"It is disingenuous to advance economic sanctions without providing protections for the Venezuelans who have fled here because of the conditions necessitating those sanctions.” Read more

"I will seek a full accounting of where these hundreds of children who were reportedly relocated from the Homestead detention center ended up." Read more

“Democrats will not stop fighting for it and Republicans should not use Venezuelans as pawns in their political game.” Read more

"Children spending their entire childhood languishing in a child detention facility until they can be arrested and face deportation once they turn 18 is monstrous." Read more

“Congress must be able to exercise its constitutional oversight authority and ensure that all migrants coming here are treated with dignity and humanity.” Read more

"This is an administration that has thumbed its nose at the law. They have repeatedly demonstrated that they have something to hide.” Read more