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  • Floor Speech on Health Care Coverage for Immigrants
    Nov 5, 2009  - I would like to thank Mr. Ellison, certainly, for the kind introduction and for sharing very powerful stories. I have had the opportunity to share a number of stories on the floor of the House of Representatives, and these are all real people who are impacted. I think that, perhaps, my colleagues... More
  • One-Minute Floor Speech Against Racial Profiling Caused by the 287(g) Program
    Oct 21, 2009  - U.S. Rep. Jared Polis One-Minute Floor Speech Against Racial Profiling Caused by the 287(g) Program Wednesday, October 21, 2009 M. Speaker – I rise today in strong opposition to the Federal 287(g) program. This unconscionable program authorizes local governments to carry out immigration law com... More
  • Floor Statement on H.R. 2892 - The 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill Conference Report
    Oct 15, 2009  - I would like to thank my colleague from Florida for the time, as well as Chairman Price for his leadership in bringing the fiscal year 2010 Homeland Security appropriations bill to the floor. It reflects the hard work of Chairman Price over the past year, and I am grateful that I have the opportunit... More
  • One-minute floor speech on Release of ICE Detention Report
    Oct 7, 2009  - Yesterday, Secretary Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton, released a much-anticipated report on ICE’s detention policies, which detailed observations and recommendations made by former Detention Policy and Planning Director, Dora Schriro. Despite ICE... More
  • The Case for Detention Reform
    Sep 15, 2009  - For the inaugural edition of the Denver Huffington Post, I thought I'd write about an issue that is close to my heart -- reforming our nation's immigration detention facilities, which hold tens of thousands of immigrants who were mostly picked up for trivial offenses like speeding or loitering and a... More
  • Anti-Immigrant Hate Network Descends on Washington
    Sep 14, 2009  - The leading anti-immigrant group and its supporters are descending on Washington DC this week, as part of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)’s “Week of Action.”  The real motive behind their anti-immigrant agenda was exposed yesterday during a telephonic press conference by s... More
  • Floor Speech on Immigration Detention Facilities
    Jul 16, 2009  - Over the 4th of July weekend, I toured a detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, where I met dozens of law-abiding immigrants.  There are more than thirty thousand immigrants like them throughout the country who find themselves in detention.  Some of these individuals include teenagers, to... More
  • Floor Statement on DREAM Act and Immigration Reform
    Jul 10, 2009  - Last week, hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country, many of whom were in Colorado, picked up the phone and called Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to ask that she delay the deportation of a young man from Miami, Florida, Walter Lara.  Let me tell you a little bit a... More
  • Floor Speech on Senate Immigration Amendments
    Jul 9, 2009  - Yesterday the Senate voted to extend the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and to expand E-Verify, making this flawed employment verification system both mandatory and permanent for federal contractors. The American people don’t want to see political posturing. They want to see real, meaningfu... More
  • Immigration reform beyond border wall is needed
    Jul 9, 2009  - Yesterday the Senate voted to extend the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and to expand E-Verify, making this flawed employment verification system both mandatory and permanent for federal contractors. The American people don’t want to see political posturing. They want to see real, meaningfu... More
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