Press Releases
SAN JOSE, CA – U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) commended the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors following a 4-1 vote yesterday to authorize County staff to proceed with implementing a local "host family" program to help with the current humanitarian challenge of unaccompanied immigrant minors.
WASHINGTON, DC – A new surveillance reform bill introduced this week in the Senate makes significant improvements to bulk collections of business records and increases transparency, but falls short in reforming the oft-abused FISA section 702 authority program, said U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today.
In particular, the bill would continue to allow warrantless searches of Americans' emails, photos, documents, or other files contained in communications swept up by intelligence agencies under section 702 authority.
WASHINGTON, DC – Following an announcement today that health insurance rates will increase at a lower rate than before the Affordable Care Act was enacted, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Chair of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation,applauded Covered California, the state's health insurance marketplace, and credited the federal health care law for helping individuals and families in California.
WASHINGTON, DC – Vulnerable children who are fleeing persecution and extreme violence in Central America are entitled to protection under domestic and international law, said U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today. Application for asylum has been an important part of our immigration for decades. Repealing bipartisan protections for victims of human trafficking, slavery, and sex trafficking would irresponsibly return children to their traffickers.
Lofgren, the Senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, called for responding to the humanitarian crisis in a manner that ensures vulnerable children are not hastily returned to life-threatening circumstances:
WASHINGTON D.C. – Democratic Members of Congress will join a bipartisan Congressional delegation to the U.S. – Mexico border this week to learn more about the unprecedented spike in unaccompanied migrant children apprehended along the southwest border. The influx, driven almost entirely by children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and largely thought to be a result of extreme violence in their home countries and false rumors that the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House GOP appears intent on turning a humanitarian border crisis that deserves a serious discussion into yet another partisan attack on the Obama Administration, said U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today.
Lofgren, the leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, delivered the following statement today during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "An Administration Made Disaster: The South Texas Border Surge of Unaccompanied Alien Minors."
