Immigration is an issue that especially impacts our region. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan organization, confirmed comprehensive immigration reform holds the potential for economic growth and job creation that will benefit all Americans.
Virtually everyone can agree that our immigration system is broken and the time is now for comprehensive reform. I support a pathway to earned citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in America. In today's immigration system, people waiting to obtain an immigrant visa face unreasonably long backlogs -- in some instances more than two decades. Clearing the backlog of family based petitions is welcomed by families who have been waiting for decades. I will always be a huge advocate for immigration reform and will continue to fight until we have real comprehensive immigration reform.