WASHINGTON – Rep. James Walkinshaw joined Democratic Members of Congress in filing an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in Noem v. Al Otro Lado, urging the Court to reaffirm that the Constitution gives Congress—not the Executive Branch—the authority to write and revise the Nation’s asylum laws.
The brief challenges the Trump Administration’s “metering” policy, which blocks people… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11) joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), along with Representative Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), and over 55 colleagues in pressing Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on children’s exposure to ICE’s escalating violence in American communities,… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11) joined the Congressional Tri-Caucus, composed of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), condemned the escalating abuse of power evidenced in the actions of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement agencies… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and James Walkinshaw (VA-11) led their Virginia House Democratic colleagues, Representatives Bobby Scott (VA-03), Don Beyer (VA-08), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), and Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) in sending a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Immigration and Customs… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman James. R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a Member of the Committee on Homeland Security and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, led Committee Democrats in demanding that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem immediately produce records related… Read more »
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Rep. James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, led Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem demanding that she ensure Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement responding to the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis:
“Today, ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. And now, unsurprisingly, the Trump Administration is lying… Read more »
