Dr. Bera believes that the gridlock in Washington has continually gotten in the way of mending our broken immigration system and will continue to work across party lines to pass meaningful reform.
Work across party lines to pass meaningful immigration reform that secures the borders and addresses undocumented immigrants.
Occurrences
We should be reducing processing delays and modernizing our immigration system, not creating additional barriers for people who are following the rules.
I support legal challenges to this policy and expect the courts to halt its implementation.
Dr. Bera believes that the gridlock in Washington has continually gotten in the way of mending our broken immigration system and will continue to work across party lines to pass meaningful reform.
Evidence
The official press-release feed in June 2026 lists Bera's newest items as a June 10 seniors' access-to-care announcement and June 8 bipartisan foreign-affairs bills; it does not list any immigration-reform bill or cross-party immigration negotiation in the last 30 days.
Bera condemned Trump's remarks about Indian immigrants and said, 'We are a nation of immigrants.' The statement is immigration-related rhetoric, but it does not show legislative immigration reform or bipartisan passage.
Assessments
After the 2018 election, Bera did take same-term legislative steps on immigration reform, but he did not deliver the full promised result. Congress.gov lists him as a cosponsor of the American Dream and Promise Act in both the 116th and 117th Congresses and of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act in both the 116th and 117th Congresses. House Clerk roll calls show he voted yes when those bills passed the House on June 4, 2019, December 11, 2019, and March 18, 2021. The farmworker bills drew substantial Republican support, so there was some cross-party progress, and the Dream/Promise bills directly addressed undocumented immigrants. But none of those measures became law, and Bera's role was supportive rather than primary leadership. The promise called for meaningful immigration reform that both secured the borders and addressed undocumented immigrants; the record shows partial same-term advancement, not full delivery.