Issue Position: Immigration and Border Security

Issue Position

In my years of meeting with constituents up and down the state, I have rarely been as inspired as when I have visited with immigrants and heard their stories. Just this year I met with a man whose family had lost everything in his home country, who fled on a boat that was adrift at sea for days before being rescued and finally making his way to America, then California, as a refugee. He and his family had nothing. They crammed into a studio apartment and started picking up paper and other recyclable material off the street for extra money. Decades later, he owns a massive recycling company and is wealthy man. Only in America!

God bless him and his family for their work and success.

California is home to more immigrants than any other state and Silicon Valley is brimming with the world's technology talent. We have thousands and thousands of success stories here and I look forward to many more in the future.

But our immigration system has problems that we must address. Our border is in crisis and not enough is being done federally to control who enters our country. Illegal drugs such as Fentanyl flow freely across the border and ruin lives as they fall into the hands of users. Policy should decide who and what enters the United States, not a lack of enforcement. I will authorize all available state resources to the border to aid the federal government in border control.

I welcome all immigrants who come here legally, but as Governor, I will end Sanctuary Cities and deport dangerous criminals here illegally.

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