A Welcoming Immigration System

Elizabeth Warren considers immigrants are our neighbors and our friends. Warren is announcing her plan for immigration reform - to create a rules-based system that protects our security, grows our economy, and reflects our values. Elizabeth Warren has called for the immigration system to be reimagined and for ICE to be abolished.Elizabeth Warren considers immigrants are our neighbors and our friends. Warren is announcing her plan for immigration reform - to create a rules-based system that protects our security, grows our economy, and reflects our values. Elizabeth Warren has called for the immigration system to be reimagined and for ICE to be abolished. Warren said that the President's deeply immoral actions have made it obvious - we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our morality and that works. She has also been a strong opponent of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy (which separated children and families on the border). In January 2019, Warren was one of twenty senators to sponsor the Dreamer Confidentiality Act, a bill imposing a ban on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from passing information collected on DACA recipients to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement agency with exceptions in the case of fraudulent claims, national security issues, or non-immigration related felonies being investigated. In February 2019, Warren was one of sixteen senators to vote against legislation preventing a partial government shutdown and containing 1.375 billion for barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border that included 55 miles of fencing. In March 2019, Warren voted to block President Trump's national emergency declaration that would have granted him access to $3.6 billion in military construction funding to build border barriers. On July 11, 2019, Warren unveiled an immigration plan that called for decriminalizing border crossings in addition to altering both the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and implementing a ban on private immigration detention centers. She vowed to prosecute violations of immigrant rights committed under the Trump administration and admitted that while "Trump may have taken the system to its most punitive extreme, his racist policies build on a broken immigration system and an enforcement infrastructure already primed for abuse."
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