Support humane immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship and work permits and ends mass detention, deportation, and family separation.

Chuy has introduced and helped pass important legislation that would provide a path to citizenship and work permits... and has also introduced the New Way Forward to decriminalize immigration and put an end to mass detention, deportations, and separation of families.

Commits to immigration reform with legal status, work authorization, and an end to mass detention and family separation.

PRIORITIES — Chuy for Congress
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Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García joined members of Congress to introduce the Ban Warehouse Detention Act, which would prohibit DHS and ICE from establishing, operating, expanding, converting, or renovating warehouses or similar buildings for immigration detention and would prevent new immigrant detention models.

Garcia backed legislation to block ICE from using warehouses for detention and to stop new detention models, reinforcing his anti-detention immigration position.

Reps. García, Tlaib, Ramirez Introduce Bill to Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention Prisons | Representative Jesus Garcia
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As State Senator, Chuy passed several bills aimed at expanding immigrants’ access to government services and legal representation.

The source describes past legislative work advancing immigrant access and legal representation, consistent with an ongoing commitment to immigration reform.

ABOUT — Chuy for Congress
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Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García joined 14 other Members to introduce the Ban Warehouse Detention Act, which would bar DHS and ICE from using warehouse-style buildings to detain people and would block new immigrant detention models.

Concrete legislative action against detention expansion, but no enactment or administrative adoption is shown.

partial same_term A for effort

Reps. García, Tlaib, Ramirez Introduce Bill to Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention Prisons | Representative Jesus Garcia
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García and 85 other Members urged DHS and USCIS to reduce DACA renewal delays, warning that long processing times were causing work-authorization lapses and exposing Dreamers to detention and removal.

Shows ongoing advocacy for work permits and relief from detention/removal, but it is a request to agencies rather than delivered reform.

partial same_term A for effort

daca-delays-letter-final.pdf
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The campaign priorities page frames Garcia's immigration promise around legislation for a path to citizenship and work permits, plus New Way Forward-style reforms to decriminalize immigration and end mass detention, deportations, and family separation.

Establishes the relevant promise scope and shows the campaign itself treated House passage and introduced bills as efforts, not final enactment.

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PRIORITIES — Chuy for Congress
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Congress.gov describes H.R.1177 as establishing a path to citizenship for certain undocumented individuals and lists Rep. Garcia as a cosponsor. The bill's status remained Introduced, with latest House action a subcommittee referral on April 28, 2021.

Garcia backed broad citizenship legislation, but Congress.gov shows it did not advance to enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.1177 - U.S. Citizenship Act, 117th Congress | Congress.gov
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The Clerk's Roll Call 91 shows H.R.6, the Dream Act, passed the House 228-197 on March 18, 2021, and Garcia (IL) voted Yea.

Shows Garcia helped pass a House immigration legalization bill, but House passage alone did not deliver enacted reform.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 91 | Bill Number: H.R. 6 | Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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Congress.gov lists Garcia as sponsor of H.R.536, the New Way Forward Act. The summary says it would change immigration enforcement, including ending mandatory detention in certain cases and barring DHS detention contracts with public or private for-profit entities. The bill stayed at Introduced status.

Concrete legislative effort against detention and deportation pipelines, but no enacted end to mass detention or deportation.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.536 - New Way Forward Act, 117th Congress | Congress.gov
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Garcia's House office announced he joined the introduction of the Ban Warehouse Detention Act to prevent DHS and ICE from establishing, operating, expanding, converting, or renovating warehouse-style detention facilities and to block new immigrant detention models.

Recent detention-focused legislative action supports the effort badge, but the source shows introduction rather than enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

Reps. García, Tlaib, Ramirez Introduce Bill to Stop ICE’s Warehouse Detention Prisons | Representative Jesus Garcia
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A congressional letter signed first by Garcia warned that DACA and EAD renewal delays were causing work authorization gaps and exposing recipients to unemployment, detention, and removal; it urged DHS and USCIS to reduce the backlog and prevent lapses.

Shows oversight advocacy for work permits and protection from detention/removal, but it is a request to agencies, not delivered statutory reform.

partial same_term A for effort

daca-delays-letter-final.pdf
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