Immigration Reform
Immigrants are an integral part of our nation's history, culture, and economy. They strengthen America and contribute greatly to our success. However, the current immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed.
Immigrants are our neighbors and colleagues, soldiers and first responders, doctors, lawyers, farmers and entrepreneurs. They deserve the opportunity to earn their American Dream. That's why I'm proud to be an original cosponsor of several immigration reform bills.
As a nation of immigrants, we have a responsibility to foster dignity and respect for all newcomers to America. I will continue working with members of both parties, in the House and in the Senate, to enact comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides an earned pathway to lawful status for immigrants who work hard and play by the rules.
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WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today voted against H.R. 5759, the House Republican's legislative attempt to block President Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) released the following statement on the executive actions announced tonight by President Obama on immigration.
"Our immigration system is broken and tonight the president took steps to help fix it. However, executive actions alone cannot fix our broken immigration system, nor are they a substitute for passing comprehensive immigration reform. Truly fixing our broken immigration system will require congressional action.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced that the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving six northern California counties, has been awarded a $249,229 grant by the Department of Homeland Security to double its free citizenship education classes in Sonoma and Napa counties over the next two years.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced a $376,423 U.S. Education Department grant has been awarded to Mendocino-Lake Community College.
The grant comes from the Education Department's College Assistance Migrant Program, or CAMP.
Fiery Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez stood before a crowd of some 100 North Bay Latino leaders at Chateau St. Jean Winery in Kenwood Saturday afternoon, and told them he would be leaving them shortly to go to the airport to catch a redeye flight back to Chicago.
"At 5 a.m., I'm going to get to my house, and my wife and my daughter and my granddaughter know I'm coming home. Doesn't it break your heart that there are millions of people who don't know their fathers are coming home?"
Set aside for a moment, if you can, issues of Democratic and Republican politics, homeland security, official language and national identity – all the real but ephemeral concerns around which we organize our national debate on immigration reform, and think for a moment about tides.
Humans of every race, religion, skin color, language and political orientation have been migrating, like waves on the sea, across borders, mountains, deserts, oceans and mighty rivers since the beginning of recorded time.
Though the House Majority’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget was passed by the House today, Sonoma Valley’s U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, who voted against it, said the Senate will not pass the budget, and if it did, the President would veto it.
“This reckless spending plan will kill jobs, end the guarantee of Medicare for America’s seniors, raises taxes on middle-class families while rewarding the wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas, gut our education system and make college more expensive for hard working families,” said Thompson.
Estoy orgulloso en anunciar que soy coautor de H.R. 15, Acta de Seguridad Fronteriza, Oportunidades Económicas, y Modernización Inmigratoria. HR 15 es la versión bicameral de la Cámara de Representantes del proyecto de ley para reforma inmigratoria que fue pasado en el Senado.
The bill, H.R. 15, is titled "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act."
It is the House version of the bipartisan immigration reform bill passed by the Senate, Thompson said.