Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – The Congressional Progressive Caucus, along with Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee and support from the Congressional Tri-Caucuses, are holding a forum on Family Detention this Tuesday, July 28th at 2 PM in Rayburn 2226.
Witnesses include two formerly detained women, a whistleblower who worked at a family detention center, and experts who will speak to the psychological, developmental and legal implications of current family detention policies.
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Washington, D.C. – In the wake of the July 1 shooting of 32-year-old San Francisco resident Kathryn Steinle, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) are calling for a review of the policies and practices pertaining to federal prisoners with immigration detainers, writing in a letter that efforts should be made to improve communication and make local communities safer.
San Jose, California--Five years after the enactment of the Wall Street Reform Act which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB is working on rules to curb the abuses of the payday, car title and installment lending industry. As it takes up that momentous task, the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC) and California Democratic Congressional Delegation Chair Representative Zoe Lofgren sent the Bureau a message of strong encouragement today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. RepresentativesLuis V. Gutiérrez (D- Ill.), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today issued the following statement regarding an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announcement that some mothers and children seeking refuge at our borders will be released from detention facilities:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) issued the below statement following the Supreme Court's ruling today in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission:
"Voters in several states – including California – chose to create independent redistricting commissions to put an end to using redistricting as a partisan political tool. Today's ruling upholds that choice, and is an important victory for open and transparent governance.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of eight House Democrats recounted a trip they took this week to visit two private family detention facilities in Texas used to hold mothers and children awaiting disposition of their asylum claims.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed an amendment by Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to defund two surveillance "backdoors" that currently allow intelligence agencies access to Americans' private data and correspondence without a warrant. The amendment, which is part of the Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Defense appropriations bill (H.R. 2685), passed by a vote of 255-174.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fifteenbipartisan members of Congress are calling on the Vietnamese Government to release human rights blogger Tran Huynh Duy Thuc and 26 additional wrongfully incarcerated political prisoners.
WASHINGTON, D.C – Leading House Democrats joined former detainees and legal advocates today calling on the Department of Homeland Security to end its immigrant family detention program in a press conference Thursday morning.
