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Agriculture is the cornerstone of Ventura County’s economy, supporting thousands of jobs throughout our region. It is also a proud part of our heritage, giving our community its unique beauty. In Congress, I have worked hard to support our farmers, farmworkers, and businesses that help feed the nation.
We have a sacred responsibility to those who have served our country in uniform. As a daughter, sister, and niece of veterans, I take no responsibility more personally and seriously. When I came to Congress, the very first committee I asked to serve on was the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Both here in Ventura County and at the national level, I have made it my priority to put our nation’s veterans first. That means helping our servicemembers transition back into civilian life and caring for our veterans by ensuring they all receive the timely, high-quality healthcare and benefits they have earned and deserve. It also means tackling veterans homelessness and unemployment and addressing high suicide rates that continue to plague our nation’s heroes. Finally, as more and more women join our Armed Forces and return home after their service, I’ve made it a special focus to ensure that the VA is prepared for the changing veteran demographics. Women represent the fastest-growing veteran population and the VA needs to adapt to meet their needs. That means making sure the VA offers gender-specific healthcare, addressing the unique circumstances leading to female veteran suicide, and providing critical wrap-around services like job-training, child care, and caregiver assistance. It’s long past time to recognize the contributions that all veterans, female and male, have made to our great nation.
We must invest in our nation’s infrastructure including our airports, roads, bridges, and waterways that are vital to the movement of people and goods across our country. As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I have been working to address the infrastructure challenges facing Ventura County and the nation.
As Ventura County’s Representative in Congress, I view everything I do through the lens of how it will create jobs and grow our economy. From our ports, to our large and small businesses, to our naval base, to our agricultural community, I strive to advance federal policy that will support our diverse job creators.
The 26th District
The district includes most of Ventura County and a portion of Los Angeles County, including the cities of Oxnard, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Camarillo, Newbury Park, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, and Calabasas. If you are interested in browsing district-specific population statistics, you can look up Census data for the 26th District. I am honored to serve the residents of the 26th Congressional District of California.
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The reports that hundreds of farmworkers have been detained by ICE in Ventura County are deeply alarming.
Yesterday, I sent a letter to DHS Secretary Noem and Acting ICE Director Lyons demanding immediate answers about these raids including who was arrested, where they are being held, and ...whether civil rights and due process were violated.
This administration must be held accountable for these egregious actions in our community. We will not stand by in silence — and I will not stop demanding answers.
Read my full statement. Link in bio.🔗
Yesterday, the immigration enforcement actions that took place in Ventura County tore at the fabric of our community. These actions were un-American, and they do not reflect who we are or what we stand for.
Our immigration system isn’t broken because of open borders or lax enforcement. ...It’s broken because of the endless barriers that make it nearly impossible to become a legal resident. And we make it especially hard for those coming here from our southern border.
The individuals targeted and traumatized by this militarized operation are hardworking people who break their backs every day to feed this country. They are mothers, fathers, our neighbors, and our friends. They’ve risked everything for a better life, and yet we force them to live in fear and uncertainty.
We can’t keep asking people to build this country while denying them a place in it. If we truly believe in fairness, hard work, and family, then we must act like it. That starts with creating a real path to citizenship for hardworking people in communities across this country.
I joined Supervisor Lopez in Camarillo to survey the devastating and heartbreaking scene of masked federal agents disrupting the lives and livelihoods of hardworking members of our communities — our friends and our neighbors who are doing backbreaking work to feed America.
I was ...horrified by what I saw. This is a massively disproportionate and outrageous response by the Trump administration. I am deeply concerned about this administration’s cruel and legally questionable immigration enforcement tactics.
When I return to Washington, I will be working with my Democratic colleagues to get answers for our community, demand accountability and transparency from this administration, and push for commonsense immigration reform that reflects our nation’s values.
I am aware of the recent immigration enforcement activities and large federal agent presence on Laguna Road in Camarillo and have been closely monitoring the situation. I’m deeply frustrated by the lack of transparency from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, and I will be demanding ...answers to find out who they detained and where the detainees are being taken.
These militarized raids are not routine immigration enforcement. They are part of a deliberate, disruptive, and ongoing campaign of cruelty that is an unacceptable assault on our way of life. ICE should be focused on individuals who pose real threats to public safety, not carrying out broad sweeps that destabilize entire communities.
The farmworkers being targeted in these operations are the same individuals who break their backs day in and day out to feed this country. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were rightly declared essential workers who were vital to sustaining our nation’s food supply. To turn around and target them is wrong and profoundly immoral.
These raids are a misuse of federal resources, and they are not how we keep our neighborhoods safe. In fact, this kind of chaos only makes our communities more insecure. And as these actions continue to traumatize families and tear communities apart, they are also tearing at the fabric of our humanity.
I am continuing to work to hold this administration accountable and ensure that all Ventura County families, regardless of immigration status, feel safe. We can, and we must, enforce our immigration laws while upholding the rule of law and respecting due process.
After already pushing out 17,000 employees from the VA, the Trump administration is now on track to eliminate nearly 30,000 by the end of September.
These devastating cuts are not just numbers. They are having real consequences for veterans across the country, including right here in ...Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. These reckless staffing cuts are putting our veterans’ health at risk and represent a shameful betrayal of the promises made to those who served.
The Trump administration’s assault on federal workers has also led to 7 of 12 mental health providers leaving the Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner Outpatient Clinic in Ventura, and veterans are now waiting over 100 days for life-saving mental health care appointments. This is unacceptable!
Our veterans deserve timely, reliable access to the health services they have rightfully earned. They deserve leaders who fight for them, not abandon them for political gain. I am committed to ensuring the VA lives up to its mission to care for those who served.
Today, Republicans in Congress turned their backs on the people they were elected to serve, ramming through a reckless budget package that will leave America hungrier, sicker, and poorer. This wasn’t about policy or the public good. It was about appeasing Donald Trump and checking a political ...box, no matter the human cost.
Every single House Democrat voted no on this cruel and despicable bill because the American people deserve better. This bill may be headed to Donald Trump’s desk, but our fight is far from over. I will keep fighting tooth and nail to push back against the cruelty, extremism, and misplaced priorities of Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, and to fight for a future where every family has a fair shot.
Read my full statement. Link in bio.🔗
History was made today. Leader Jeffries just delivered the longest floor speech in House history to expose this bill for what it is: a tax scam that redistributes wealth to the ultra-rich while imposing the largest cuts to Medicaid and food assistance in American history.
House Democrats ...are united, and we are voting no on this cruel, despicable bill.
The American people deserve better, and we are not backing down. #presson
“Let me make something clear Mr. Speaker. House Democrats believe in a woman’s freedom to make her own reproductive health care decisions. A decision that should be between a woman, her family, her faith, and her doctors. That’s it, period. Full stop.”
“Every single one of us will stand up for the healthcare of the American people, for the nutritional assistance of the American people, for efforts that actually should be designed to improve their quality of life, not hurt it, to lower the high cost of living, not raise it, to bring people ...together, not tear us apart.” - Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries