Honorable Adriano Espaillat
Representative, New York, Democrat
Rep. Espaillat has represented New York’s 13th Congressional District since 2017 and serves on the House Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget. He delivered the following remarks on the House floor on Jan. 31 on the proposed impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In 1986, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act. That bill, in addition to implementing border security, granted a pathway to citizenship to nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Then in 1990, Republican President George Bush signed another immigration act, which, among other measures,…
