During my 30 minute press conference after the tour, we watched truckloads of supplies delivered to this $1 billion camp that requires significant resources for construction, food, cleaning, technology, laundry, security, healthcare and more for 1000s of detained immigrants.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|Texas District 16
Veronica Escobar
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Veronica Escobar
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratTexas District 16
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This $1.24 BILLION detention center, "Camp East Montana," is massive.
It is funded by Trump's "one, big, beautiful" bill, which cuts healthcare and nutrition programs for Americans to give billionaires tax breaks and spends $45 BILLION for more corporate-run immigration detention.
ICYMI: On Monday I toured what will become the largest immigration detention facility in the U.S., built on Fort Bliss military installation property, and operated by a private contractor.
Here's what I saw and some takeaways 🧵
Today I spent over two hours conducting oversight at the new $1.2 billion migrant detention facility on Fort Bliss.
The facts are simple: Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan is unbelievably costly and failing to target the ‘worst of the worst.’
Watch my full recap here:
These proposals are nothing short of trying to prevent Americans from participating in our electoral process.
And it's in line with the Trump administration's continued attacks on our democracy and its institutions.
Yet on Friday during his summit with Putin, Trump was told quoted Putin as saying that "our [2020] election was rigged because [we] have mail-in voting."
I can't emphasize how deeply alarming it is that Trump is following Putin's lead on this issue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
So why is Trump doing this, and why now?
At several points last year, he encouraged his own supporters to vote by mail.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
As for voting machines, they help us quickly, safely, and accurately tally votes. In addition, almost all — 98 percent — of votes cast in the 2024 election had a paper record which election officials can then use to verify the accuracy of voting machines.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Yet should Trump move forward with eliminating the use of mail-in ballots, that would've meant that for 2024, almost 10,700 El Pasoans would've had their mail-in votes not count.
ep-county-elections-production.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/fi...
Even in Texas, despite cries from Republicans about "rampant voter fraud," the Republican Attorney General has only found 33 "potential noncitizens who allegedly voted" in 2024.
Out of 11.3 million ballots cast, that's 0.0003% of votes cast.
www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...
They also made it clear that "our election infrastructure has never been more secure and the election community never better prepared to deliver safe, secure, free, and fair elections for the American people."
Let's be clear: CISA, the agency tasked with protecting our critical infrastructure, has said that "[there was] no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on the security or integrity of our election infrastructure" in 2024.
www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
🚨 Trump's latest proposals to eliminate mail-in voting and the use of voting machines does nothing but further diminish the faith people have in our elections while preventing Americans from participating in our electoral process.
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El Pasoans can rest assured I will always fight to ensure every generation has the same dignity, opportunities, and support from the federal government that previous generations were afforded.
90 years ago, Americans across the country witnessed the awesome ability of our federal government to solve difficult problems and change lives for the better.
At a time when this critical program faces some of its greatest threats from DOGE and Republicans intent on dismantling, cutting, or privatizing Social Security, I proudly stand with my Democratic colleagues to protect the hard-earned benefits so many in our community rely on.
Today, over 132,000 El Pasoans rely on Social Security, including over 100,000 seniors.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating an economic lifeline for millions of Americans facing poverty during the Great Depression and millions more in the decades since.
The Israeli Government has killed nearly 270 journalists, including the 5 killed today, in less than 2 years.
Mass starvation, indiscriminate killing of civilians, the inhumanity, bloodshed and war crimes must end.
The world - starting with the U.S. - must condemn and end this catastrophe.
What’s happening is a humanitarian catastrophe created by the Israeli government, and it cannot stand.
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552 total votes
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| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
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| 2025-01-03 | — | Election of the Speaker | NOT_VOTING | — | — | Johnson (LA) |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
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