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Texas Monthly: Veronica vs. the Swamp

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By Robert Moore Representative Veronica Escobar wanted her colleagues to see the conditions for themselves. It was a warm spring morning in El Paso, and the freshman congresswoman was taking four Democratic congresswomen—members of the House Homeland Security Committee—to visit a Border Patrol station in El Paso where hundreds of migrants, many of them Central American families…

Congresswoman Escobar Leads Letter to DoD and DHS on Non-Citizen Servicemembers Seeking Naturalization with Cisneros and Carbajal

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Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16), member of the House Armed Services Committee, led a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kevin McAleenan seeking answers regarding Department of Defense (DoD) policy on the process for non-citizen servicemembers seeking naturalization and how the Department of Homeland Security evaluates servicemember applications for naturalization.

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar Statement for Field Hearing on the Trump Administrations Border Policies and the Relationship Between Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Domestic Terrorism

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Unfortunately, it is only too fitting that this hearing is being held in El Paso, a place that has had to endure the target painted on our backs because of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and a community that has been ground zero for the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policies.

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