Immigration
With legal pathways for immigration blocked, effective border security under-resourced, and root causes of mass migration long ignored, our country’s immigration system is broken. During my time in Congress, I am proud to have secured resources for smart border security, funding for local non-profits supporting asylum-seeking families lawfully released in the United States, and investments to increase economic opportunities and improve the infrastructure of our land ports of entry.
In the Safer Communities Act, I also passed a provision making it illegal to traffic firearms across the border, reducing the flow of firearms that have been fueling violence in the Northern Triangle and causing migration north. But there is still much, much more work to do – including for border security and a pathway to citizenship for DREAMERS – and I will continue working to deliver it.
Latest News
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) are welcoming $16.6 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded to...
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Sarah Davenport for U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. “Sarah Davenport has built an impressive legal career as a federal prosecutor in New Mexico and strong roots in her home community of Las Cruces,”...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (N.M.) is cosponsoring two bipartisan bills, both led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), to strengthen border security at ports of entry: The Securing America's Ports of Entry Act would fully staff America's airports, seaports, and land ports of entry by requiring U.S. Customs...
