Immigration

Days after he was denied entry to an ICE facility in the Bay Area, Republican Congressman Jeff Denham is speaking out about his experience. A spokesperson for Denham tells FOX40 the Turlock congressman knocked on the door of the Pleasant Hill center for about five minutes, before a security guard told him the staff has been instructed not to answer. Denham's office says he had been in communication with the center to gain access, but they had not been able to come to an agreement. The facility ... Read more

Rep. Jeff Denham wanted in. For nearly 10 minutes on Monday, the Republican congressman from California's central valley stood at the door of a building that he believed to be housing unaccompanied migrant children, some of whom had been separated at the border. He kept knocking, but no one answered. "They've been told by (the Office of Refugees and Resettlement) not to answer the door or talk to you for right now," a security guard outside the premises told Denham. "They knew I was coming a wee... Read more

Cameras were rolling when Congressman Jeff Denham rang the bell at a shelter for immigrant children in Pleasant Hill. Nobody opened the door, but someone from the facility let Rep. Denham know he would not be able to go inside. Denham can be heard on camera saying, "We confirmed with both HHS and let our counterparts at the White House know that we were coming." The man on camera from the facility, who appeared to be security, responded, "What I've been told by them is that they had no prior kno... Read more

The cry of a child could be heard just inside the nondescript, brown detention facility in Pleasant Hill, California, a San Francisco suburb, and Rep. Jeff Denham wanted to see for himself what was inside. He knocked on the door and waited about five minutes, alternatively silent, knocking some more and asking the security guard if employees inside were aware he was out there. The guard eventually told him the employees inside had been instructed to not answer the door, not to even speak to him.... Read more

This week’s vote on the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act proves there is only one path forward to protect America’s Dreamers. I bucked my party’s leadership and initiated a discharge petition process to force the House for the first time in 20 years to take up comprehensive immigration reform. Ultimately, I was an author of the consensus bill because it provided border security, closed loopholes in the immigration system, and provided a permanent solution and path to citizenship for ou... Read more

U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock), a leader on bringing immigration issues to the forefront in Congress, today held a press conference following a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 6136, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018. Rep. Denham: “I believe what was obvious today was that Republicans cannot pass a 218 Republican bill just as Democrats couldn’t pass one in 2010… I think it’s important to recognize it’s going to take a bipartisan bill that both a... Read more

Moderate House Republicans suspected they were being played. For weeks they’d been negotiating with Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows in a quest to clinch an immigration deal that could pass the House. But whenever the two sides got close, they said, immigration hard-liners would ask for more. Then, on the morning of a scheduled June 21 vote, moderates got their hands on an explosive missive from the Freedom Caucus’ top staffer: an email warning group members that voters would punish them for... Read more

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LISTEN: @SandraSmithFox and @RepJeffDenham discuss upcoming votes on two immigration bills in the House later today pic.twitter.com/2mECuTArpG — America's Newsroom (@AmericaNewsroom) June 21, 2018 Read more

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