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July 18, 2019
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, released the following statement on the situation in Puerto Rico:
July 18, 2019
WASHINGTON— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Leadership called on Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to meet with the Caucus to discuss his agency’s efforts under the Trump Administration to evict families of mixed immigration status from federal housing. In April, Secretary Carson lied to Congress in testimony by claiming that his Department was not denying federal housing loans to DACA recipients. The lie was directly contradicted in a June letter written to Congressman Pete Aguilar from HUD Official Len Wolfson.
July 15, 2019
WASHINGTON— Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s new rule to end asylum protections for most migrants, including children travelling alone, who transit through a third country to seek asylum in the United States:
July 3, 2019
WASHINGTON— The Tri-Caucus Chairs – which includes the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Congressional Asian-Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) – called on Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and Director of the Anti-Defamation League, to publicly condemn Rep. Weber’s language and reconsider his receipt of the prestigious America’s Democratic Legacy Award.
July 2, 2019
EL PASO, TEXAS — Yesterday, Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and their Democratic colleagues held a press conference following a delegation in El Paso and Clint, Texas. The purpose of the delegation was to investigate several facilities used to detain immigrants. Below are remarks as delivered by Congressman Castro (TX-20) and excerpts from remarks as delivered by members of the delegation:
June 27, 2019
WASHINGTON— Today, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus released the following statement on the House passage of H.R. 3401, the Emergency Humanitarian Supplemental, by a vote of 305-102:
June 27, 2019
WASHINGTON— Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court decision on U.S. Department of Commerce v. New York to temporarily block the Department of Commerce from adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census:
June 20, 2019
WASHINGTON— Today, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) introduced H. Res. 453, a Resolution to formally recognize June as Immigrant Heritage Month.
June 20, 2019
WASHINGTON— Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, released the following statement to mark World Refugee Day:
Tri-Caucus Members Oppose HUD Secretary Carson’s Effort to Evict Immigrant and Mixed-Status Families
June 18, 2019
WASHINGTON— The Tri-Caucus – which includes the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Congressional Asian-Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) – called on Department of Housing (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson to reverse his decision to target immigrant and mixed-status households by barring them from federal housing subsidies, which would exacerbate the affordable housing crisis and effectively evict hundreds of thousands of families. This letter follows a recent HUD policy change to deny federal housing loans to DACA recipients, which was announced by Len Wolfson last week, marking yet another expansion of the Trump Administration’s anti-immigrant agenda.