Lawmakers representing communities of color are requesting a meeting with Amazon after a report by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed Thursday that the company's controversial facial recognition tool Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of US Congress with mugshots in its database. And on Friday, the letter was signed by 23 more members of Congress, including Virginia Rep. Tom… Read more »
Fifty-six House Democrats on Monday signed a letter demanding Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross address what they call “glaring contradictions” in his rationale for adding a controversial citizenship question to the census.
Ross originally said he added the question, which will ask census-takers to list their citizenship, at the request of the Justice Department. But Ross filed a memo… Read more »
Los Angeles has received $10.5 million in badly needed affordable housing grants for nine projects in the city, officials announced Tuesday.
The local money is part of $65.9 million in Affordable Housing Program grants awarded to 70 housing developments that will produce over 6,000 affordable units in Arizona, California, Nevada, and other states.
The grants are being provided… Read more »
Thirteen Democratic lawmakers are calling on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign as opposition mounted on Tuesday, including from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents at border.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., condemned Nielsen's department for "tearing" families apart.
"The government should be… Read more »
Members of Congress and immigration activists blocked the entrance to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters Wednesday, protesting the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border.
Ten House members, including Reps. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park ), Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles), John Lewis (D-Ga.), Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.),… Read more »
'They cant even get their story straight on why they're doing what they're doing,' Congressman Jimmy Gomez told DailyMail.com.
'Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, they don't want to deal with immigration, they want to push it aside,' Congressman Jimmy Gomez, a California Democrat, told DailyMail.com.
Gomez said GOP leaders only want to consider legislation favorable to the hard… Read more »
On Thursday, May 31 Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) held a press conference in his district to address concerns regarding numerous reports that the Trump administration had lost track of 1,475 unaccompanied minors last year. During the event, an array of immigration topics were discussed, including the shameful practice of using family separation policies as a deterrence, unsanitary… Read more »
House Democrats tried this week to make the Commerce Department disclose documents about the decision-making behind a citizenship question on the 2020 census. But they were blocked by Republicans. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday voted 20-16 along party lines to reject the resolution of inquiry by California Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez and unfavorably… Read more »
An effort by House Democrats to find out why the Justice Department wants a citizenship-status question on the 2020 census status was blocked Wednesday by their Republican colleagues, even as some lawmakers vowed to continue investigating the genesis of the controversial new question. In a letter sent to the U.S. Census Bureau last year, the Justice Department argued that “a reliable… Read more »
The director of national intelligence would be required to report on efforts by foreign governments, individuals or entities to bribe President Trump, the Trump family or Trump Administration officials under an amendment to the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) introduced by U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) on Friday.
“With their shameful, ongoing efforts to shut… Read more »
