Pete Aguilar represents the 31st Congressional District of California. He was most recently re-elected in 2020 and serves on the House Appropriations Committee. In the 117th Congress, Rep. Aguilar holds the leadership position of Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
Raising his family in the community his family has called home for four generations, Representative Aguilar understands the challenges that Inland Empire families face today. He started his first job at the age of twelve, working with his grandfather at the San Bernardino County Courthouse cafeteria. He then put himself through college with the assistance of student loans and federal grants, and later established a life in public service to give back to his community.
Both parties need to come together to pass comprehensive immigration reform that keeps families together, provides a pathway to citizenship, protects people who were brought to the United States as children from deportation, while also protecting the border and our national security.
Earlier this year, I led Democratic negotiations in the House of Representatives on legislation to create a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers after President Trump ended the DACA program. My bipartisan legislation makes sensible security improvements along the southern border and allows Dreamers to remain in the only country they’ve ever called home.
We need an immigration policy that builds bridges, not walls and keeps families together instead of tearing them apart.