Washington, July 14 -- Congressman Jimmy Gomez issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) delivered a House floor speech tracing how the Trump administration's anti-immigrant push escalated from the first raids in Los Angeles into an increasingly violent nationwide campaign, culminating in the recent deaths of two fathers, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero.
Gomez argued that the killings were the foreseeable consequence of repeated warnings being ignored, accountability being abandoned, and Congressional Republicans continuing to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without meaningful oversight, and he put agents and officials who violate constituti...