House Democrats Lay Out Their Party’s Immigration Policy Ideas

WASHINGTON—At an event hosted by the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Sept. 10, three Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives explained their party’s views on immigration policy. The lawmakers—Reps. Veronica Escobar of Texas, Tom Suozzi of New York, and Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico—sat down with Neera Tanden, a former senior adviser to President Joe Biden and CAP’s president, to discuss the party’s progressive policy proposals on immigration. In the conversation, they discussed several consensus ideas that are gaining steam within their party to address illegal immigration, asylum and visa application backlogs, and border security....