July 27, 2018
Media Contact:
Rep. Jimmy Gomez – Eric Harris, 202-515-1301, Eric.Harris@mail.house.gov
Rep. John Lewis – Brenda Jones, 202-226-4673, Brenda.Jones@mail.house.gov
Rep. Tom Garrett – Andrew Griffin, 202-225-4711, Andrew.Griffin@mail.house.gov
ACLU – Abdullah Hasan, 646-905-8879, ahasan@aclu.org
Rep. Jimmy Gomez Leads Bipartisan Letter to Jeff Bezos Expressing Civil… Read more »
Democrats in Congress lashed out at Amazon Thursday following a report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that found the company’s facial recognition technology misidentified 28 members of Congress and was significantly less accurate when analyzing people of color.
“Law enforcement should not use this technology until the onerous civil rights and civil liberties issues are… Read more »
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) walked away unsatisfied Wednesday from a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that was meant to clarify the agency's progress on reunifying families forcibly separated at the U.S. border.
Nielsen's meeting with the CHC mirrored those of former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly — now the White House chief of… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (D – Los Angeles) issued the following statement in response to his constituent, William Nguyen, being set free by a Vietnamese court after Nguyen was detained for taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Ho Chi Minh City on June 10, 2018.
"I take great comfort in knowing that my constituent, William Nguyen, will soon be… Read more »
A court in communist Vietnam on Friday ordered the release and deportation of American student Will Nguyen, who was detained last month during an anti-China protest.
Nguyen, a 32 year-old Houston native, was charged with “causing public disorder” at protests on June 10 in Ho Chi Minh City.
The charged carried a potential penalty of up to seven years in prison, but the attorney… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) led a bipartisan letter with 19 Members of the House and Senate asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to secure the safe and swift return of his constituent, William Nguyen, who is currently imprisoned in Vietnam. Nguyen – an American citizen – was apprehended and detained by Vietnamese officials on June 10, 2018, after attending a… Read more »
William Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American citizen who was arrested by police during a demonstration in Vietnam, faces his first trial on Thursday in Hanoi. As he peacefully protested in the streets last month he was arrested on a charge of disturbing the public order. Nguyen's body flailed as he was taken into custody.
On the morning of his trial, which is set to begin Thursday, nineteen… Read more »
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 »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Congresswoman Val Demings (FL-10), and Congressman Darren Soto (FL-9) announced the introduction of H.R. 6315, the Jeanette Acosta Invest in Women’s Health Act of 2018. The bill – named after a former Hill staffer and White House intern who lost her battle with cervical cancer last year – would create new grants to expand… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), and Judy Chu (D-CA), along with 53 of their colleagues, on Thursday requested that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross explain the contradictory and misleading statements he and other Trump Administration staffers made regarding the decision to add a question on citizenship status to the 2020 Census.
In the… Read more »
