"Good. We'll buy American coffee beans."
Our country produces a fraction of the aforementioned amounts of coffee Americans drink every day.
When you decrease supply, prices skyrocket.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|Texas District 16
Veronica Escobar
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Yes40%
No58%
Present0%
Not Voting2%
Party align98%
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Veronica Escobar
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratTexas District 16
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"I just won't drink coffee."
According to the National Coffee Association, nearly two-thirds of the country drinks coffee daily. That's about 220 million people!
www.ncausa.org/Newsroom/Mor...
Roasted coffee prices are up 12.7% and instant coffee jumped 16.3% in June compared to last year.
With Trump announcing a 50% tax on imports from Brazil, on top of the 10% tax that already exists, your morning coffee is about to get a lot more expensive.
www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...
DACA recipients have a path to citizenship and all of the privileges thereof. (In other words, they’d be able to vote and receive benefits.)
Right, that’s why this bill grants legal status to over 10 million undocumented immigrants.
I literally think the current system is needlessly difficult for migrants and cruel to undocumented immigrants. Since the ‘96 bill, the US has made people more deportable while restricting opportunities.
Not sure who you are owning here, but I’ve been an immigrant advocate my entire life.
I know plenty of people are frustrated in the comments, but my view is that this is one single step in the right direction and doing nothing isn’t an option.
Guaranteeing legal protection for over 10 *million* undocumented people in our country matters to me.
It’s time Congress finally addresses our broken system in a fair, orderly way that’ll benefit our country - immigrants and Americans alike.
There hasn’t been a more urgent time to do so.
4. Finally, the visa reform section addresses long ignored backlogs to ensure our country remains competitive.
It also ensures that asylum seekers have guaranteed access to legal counsel as they go through the asylum process.
Our asylum reform section establishes 3 regional processing centers across Latin America so that immigrants can legally seek asylum without making the dangerous trek through the western hemisphere to the United States.
3. Under current law, the only way to claim asylum is to declare your intention to seek asylum at the border.
It updates their training and provides new guidelines, such as making it unlawful to carry out immigration enforcement actions in places like schools, hospitals, places of worship, courthouses, and more.
2. The border security section has funding for border infrastructure and equipment, as well as CBP agents and officers.
1. Eligible undocumented immigrants could enroll in our newly created Dignity Program that would grant legal status, work and travel authorities, as well as protections in this permanently renewable status.
Our legislation can be broken up into four sections: legal status and protections for undocumented immigrants, border security, asylum reform, and visa reform.
We first introduced the Dignity Act last Congress. Back then, Democrats controlled the Senate and the White House.
As we find ourselves in a Republican trifecta, changes were made to the bill to reflect this new political reality and address some of the issues we’ve seen since then.
Together with Congresswoman Maria Salazar and a group of our Democratic and Republican colleagues, we’re trying to address an issue Congress has ignored for so long.
Our immigration system is broken and hasn’t been meaningfully updated in decades.
That’s why today I introduced a comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform bill known as the Dignity Act.
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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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