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Four Democratic members of Congress who traveled to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia said Monday that they were denied a request to meet with the man who was wrongly deported by the U.S. government and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
“We’re here in El Salvador demanding the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) said at a news conference. “He needs to come home. This is about due process.”
A pair of congressmembers will soon introduce a piece of federal legislation aimed at accelerating the aviation industry’s transition to unleaded fuel alternatives.
The bill, dubbed the Cutting Lead Exposure and Aviation Relief Skies Act, is a joint effort by Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, and the Republican representative for California’s 23rd congressional district Jay Obernolte, was announced on Monday, April 14.
The bill is scheduled to be formally introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday, April 17, according to a spokesperson for Garcia.
U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) is demanding answers from the Trump-Vance administration on its deportation of Andry Hernández Romero, a gay Venezuelan makeup artist who was sent to a prison in El Salvador in violation of a federal court order and in the absence of credible evidence supporting the government’s claims about his affiliation with a criminal gang.
Copies of letters the congressman issued on Thursday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CoreCivic, a private prison contractor, were shared exclusively with the Washington Blade.
Out gay Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is clapping back at fellow House Democrats who say the party should not be so focused on the Trump administration’s illegal deportation of hundreds of mostly Venezuelan men to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador.
Two members of House Democratic leadership are trying to send an official congressional delegation to the El Salvadorian prison where the Trump administration is sending deportees, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Dozens of House Democrats have privately expressed interest in participating in such a trip to protest the Trump administration's deportation policies, sources tell Axios.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) and other House Democrats are demanding that Department of Homeland Security officials justify their attempts last week to speak with students at two Los Angeles elementary schools.
Garcia and 17 other Democrats signed a letter sent Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, requesting a briefing about the operation.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) called Elon Musk the “most unlikeable person” in the U.S. during a Thursday speech in support of his party’s push to oust the tech giant from his White House role by May 30.
The Tesla CEO livestreamed himself playing the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday from his private jet, touting Starlink’s wifi signal, but he quickly ended the video after receiving a string of hateful comments.
Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) on Monday reintroduced the People Over Parking Act, a federal bill aimed at easing the nation’s housing crisis by eliminating mandatory parking minimums in local zoning laws.
Garcia unveiled the legislation during the first event of the Congressional Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Caucus in the 119th Congress. The proposal seeks to reduce construction costs and encourage the development of residential, retail, and commercial spaces in walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods.
To the applause of several hundred Orange County voters, Rep. Robert Garcia said Saturday it was more important than ever to mobilize against Republican priorities to slash federal funding to the benefit of billionaires.
It was a typical message coming from Garcia, a Long Beach Democrat who frequently lambasts conservatives in House committees. Minutes later, however, he directed his criticisms inward, toward the Democratic Party.
“When I first came into office I came with high hopes,” Garcia said. “I have never been more disappointed in the Democratic Party than right now.”
Dems are taking their fight against Elon Musk and the orange man to the street.
Sesame Street, to be precise.
It all went down at a congressional hearing on Wednesday (March 26) where Democratic reps roasted the Republican Party for their harebrained efforts to defund American public media like NPR and PBS, where the beloved children’s show airs.
Unsurprisingly, the committee was led by “bleach-blonde bad-built butch-body” chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called the networks “radical, left-wing echo chambers” and accused them of “grooming” children.