We must be clear Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.
I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.
As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.
I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.
I like to have my cup of green tea.
Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.
I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.
I am on the side of the working person across the country.
As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.
If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.
I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.
I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.
It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.
I want to remind women of color out there to stand your ground, and don't ever be afraid to speak up.
My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity.
Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.
If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.
I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for.
I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time.
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
It was very disappointing, they really had no specific information or more numbers.
We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.
Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!
I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.
It took me 17 years to become a U.S. Citizen.
I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful.
I've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there.
