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“We strongly condemn the House Homeland Security Committee’s baseless and politically motivated probe into more than 200 nonprofit organizations and religious groups that provide basic needs for children, immigrants, and other at-risk populations.”

During the conversation, Rep. Espaillat condemned recent ICE raids, including a disturbing incident in Harlem where federal agents questioned children as young as 11 years old about their immigration status

Reps. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), who is also chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, have introduced legislation to bar the use of masks during such arrests. 

"The immigrant communities across America are terrified," said Rep. Adriano Espaillat, a New York Democrat who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.  "They are really scared out there. Some of the kids are skipping school. Families are being separated.

Honduras' government isn't ready for the TPS program to end, said Leonardo Valenzuela Neda, the Honduran embassy's deputy chief of mission in the U.S., who spoke at an event hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

The chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus—Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.)—on Tuesday led a letter urging senators to reject the rescissions bill due to CPB cuts.

More than a dozen members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus signed a letter demanding answers in the death of Brownsville sailor Angelina Resendiz, whose body was found last month in Virginia.

“No hay nada más antiamericano que oponerse a darle oportunidades a todo. Los ataques de esta administración en contra de los esfuerzos DEIA delatan su ideología enfermiza. Actúan como si, para que unos tengan éxito, otros deben fracasar”, indicó el presidente del Caucus Hispano del Congreso, Adriano Espaillat (Nueva York), de origen dominicano.