Pass the New Way Forward Act to dismantle the prison-to-deportation pipeline, restore due process in immigration enforcement, end mandatory detention and certain summary deportations, limit deportations based on old convictions, end local-federal immigration enforcement entanglements, and create a path home for people unjustly deported.

I am proud to partner with my colleagues to reintroduce the New Way Forward Act, necessary legislation to codify compassion, dignity, fairness, and due process in our immigration laws and help us build an immigration system that centers the humanity of our immigrant neighbors.

Pressley reintroduced and endorsed the New Way Forward Act, whose listed provisions would overhaul immigration detention, deportation, and enforcement rules.

Pressley, García, Casar Re-Introduce the New Way Forward Act - Ayanna Pressley
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Congress.gov records H.R.5383 as the New Way Forward Act, introduced December 10, 2019, referred to House Judiciary, with final listed action referral to the Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee on January 30, 2020. The tracker remained at Introduced, not enacted.

The first-term House bill matching the promise was introduced but did not advance beyond committee referral or become law.

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H.R.5383 - New Way Forward Act, 116th Congress (2019-2020)
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA-7] as an original cosponsor of H.R.5383 on December 10, 2019.

Pressley took concrete legislative action in the relevant first House term by originally cosponsoring the New Way Forward Act.

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Cosponsors - H.R.5383 - New Way Forward Act, 116th Congress (2019-2020)
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Congress.gov records H.R.536 as the New Way Forward Act, introduced January 28, 2021, referred to House Judiciary, and later referred to the Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee on March 5, 2021. Its status remained Introduced.

The bill was reintroduced in Pressley's later federal service but still did not pass the House, Senate, or become law.

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H.R.536 - New Way Forward Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022)
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA-7] as an original cosponsor of H.R.536 on January 28, 2021.

Pressley again took concrete action for the promise in the 117th Congress, supporting an introduced bill that did not become law.

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Cosponsors - H.R.536 - New Way Forward Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022)
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Congress.gov records H.R.2374 as the New Way Forward Act, introduced March 29, 2023 and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The tracker remained at Introduced.

The 118th Congress reintroduction also failed to advance beyond introduction and committee referral, so the promise to pass the Act remained unfulfilled.

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H.R.2374 - New Way Forward Act, 118th Congress (2023-2024)
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA-7] as an original cosponsor of H.R.2374 on March 29, 2023.

Pressley continued to advance the same bill in later service, but cosponsorship did not deliver passage.

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Cosponsors - H.R.2374 - New Way Forward Act, 118th Congress (2023-2024)
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The introduced text names Garcia as introducing H.R.2374 for himself and cosponsors including Ms. Pressley, and includes titles to end mandatory detention, limit criminal-system-to-removal links, restrict local immigration enforcement roles, decriminalize migration, and create a right to come home.

The bill text substantively matches the promised policy package, but the introduced text was never enacted.

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Text - H.R.2374 - New Way Forward Act, 118th Congress (2023-2024)
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