Dr. Ada Cuellar Statement on Today’s House Votes on Budget Bills
AUSTIN, TX - Dr. Ada Cuellar issued the following statement on today’s votes in the House of Representatives on several funding bills:
“Today’s votes in the House of Representatives on funding bills are a reminder that Congress has largely stopped doing its job. The Republican majority has refused to conduct oversight or to hold Donald Trump and his Administration accountable. The vote on Homeland Security department funding keeps ICE funded higher than most countries’ militaries, with only minor tweaks. Monica De La Cruz’s vote for the DHS funding bill is a rubber stamp that tells the Trump Administration it can continue to abuse its authority, and to recklessly send in masked agents to indiscriminately target our communities. That the vote happened just after we learned from a whistleblower that ICE told its agents to disregard Fourth Amendment protections against entering homes without a judicial warrant is telling. As I’ve said before, we can secure our borders and enforce immigration laws without violating the civil rights and civil liberties of migrants and U.S. citizens alike, and without pitting federal law enforcement against the communities that pay their salaries. Congress has a role, and it has to start doing it. It’s time to fire Monica De La Cruz and bring real representation to South Texas.”
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