Congresswoman Veronica Escobar

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar Tejana. Fronteriza. Proudly representing El Paso in Congress.

🌼El Paso🌼I’m holding an in person town hall on August 15th! Hope to see you there!
08/06/2026

🌼El Paso🌼

I’m holding an in person town hall on August 15th! Hope to see you there!

We shouldn’t have to do more with less. But for far too long, communities like El Paso have been overlooked and underfun...
08/05/2026

We shouldn’t have to do more with less. But for far too long, communities like El Paso have been overlooked and underfunded. As El Paso’s voice on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, I work tirelessly every year to change that by bringing millions of federal dollars home to strengthen our neighborhoods, support working families, and expand opportunity.

This year’s $16 million in Community Project Funding are investments in El Pasoans - and I will always fight to ensure our community receives the resources and funding we deserve to thrive and build a better future.

This is the reality: babies who cannot speak or walk. Toddlers whose feet don’t touch the courtroom floor. Children who ...
08/03/2026

This is the reality: babies who cannot speak or walk. Toddlers whose feet don’t touch the courtroom floor. Children who do not understand the language - all forced to face deportation alone.

That’s what the Trump administration calls justice.

Today, immigrant children will not have legal representation in court because the Trump administration chose to eliminat...
08/03/2026

Today, immigrant children will not have legal representation in court because the Trump administration chose to eliminate a program for them. Starting today, over 20,000 children will have to fight deportation alone, and will likely be sent back to the very danger they fled.

In 2008, Congress unanimously passed a bipartisan law directing HHS to ensure, “to the greatest extent practicable,” that unaccompanied children have legal, just representation.

For nearly two decades, our government honored that duty. Donald Trump is dismantling it.

This is the reality: babies who cannot speak or walk. Toddlers whose feet don’t touch the courtroom floor. Children who do not understand the language – all forced to face deportation alone.

This is an all-out war on due process rights of children who cannot defend themselves.

Since December, HHS has withheld $65 million for work already performed. The condition for a renewed contract? Providers turn over confidential client-level data about the children they represent and their sponsors.

Meanwhile, the administration asked a Texas commission that funds criminal defense - NOT immigration cases - to provide these services.

With resources closing nationwide, advocates fear children will be moved to Texas to deport them faster.

Look at what already happens when children have no lawyers. In New York, children as young as THREE are appearing in deportation court alone.

Judges ask why they came and whether they fear returning – answers that determine their safety and future.

We do not expect a three-year-old to read, complete government forms, or understand what asylum means. Yet they expect children to identify their legal rights and defend themselves against trained government attorneys.

Is that what the Trump Administration calls justice?

I won’t be silent. On July 16, I led the Texas Democratic delegation in demanding answers. We warned HHS not to relocate children away from their homes, lawyers, and support systems, and demanded the release of overdue funds.

Today, in El Paso, Estrella del Paso, the only provider of legal services for unaccompanied children in our community, is closing its program because the government still has not paid and its cash reserves are exhausted.

The government owes Estrella $765,000 for work performed.

This program did not fail. The administration starved it of resources until El Paso’s only provider could no longer continue. Other providers across the country are being forced to do the same.

The measure of our country is not the power we wield against a child, but what we do when a child stands alone before it. It’s clear that the Trump Administration has no interest in protecting children, choosing instead to abandon them.

08/03/2026

El Paso Strong. Always.

Every El Pasoan knows where they were on August 3rd, 2019. Today remains a solemn day, and despite the passing of time, ...
08/03/2026

Every El Pasoan knows where they were on August 3rd, 2019. Today remains a solemn day, and despite the passing of time, seven years later our community continues to feel the pain, loss, and devastation from the senseless violence of that day.

I know that many continue to live with the ongoing trauma of that day, and we must continue to be supportive as the journey toward healing continues. While we remember the 23 loved ones taken from us, I remain grateful for how our city came together in the days, months and years since.

I’m thinking today of those families still mourning their loved ones, and of the El Pasoans who struggle with their injuries, both visible and invisible.

Republicans told you they were getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse. Instead, they made an already fragile healthcare ...
07/30/2026

Republicans told you they were getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse.

Instead, they made an already fragile healthcare system much more strained by forcing people off their insurance.

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07/22/2026

Republicans are eagerly sending nearly $100 billion more of your tax dollars for a war nobody wants in Iran. They are doing absolutely nothing to address the economic crisis created by Donald Trump.
 
Budgets and what we choose to fund are about our priorities, and Republicans aren’t prioritizing you.

I just introduced a new bill to cut red tape around military construction. Read more👇🏽
07/22/2026

I just introduced a new bill to cut red tape around military construction.

Read more👇🏽

For the last two years, House Republicans have not meaningfully engaged with Democrats in discussions about funding our ...
07/22/2026

For the last two years, House Republicans have not meaningfully engaged with Democrats in discussions about funding our government. Because they control every lever of government - the House, Senate and White House - Republicans consistently choose to go it alone. But when the time comes time to bring their funding bills to the floor for a vote, they suddenly no longer want to go it alone and expect House Democrats to blindly support their funding bills.

This evening, Republicans put a bill on the floor to fund the government through December 4th, with the potential to add millions more funding for Customs Border Protection when, as of June 1st, this agency still has $59 billion available. Meanwhile, the American people are struggling to pay for groceries, utilities and gas — all because of Trump’s tariffs and his illegal war — and we should be working together to address these crises and help our constituents, not throwing more money at agencies that currently have billions available. I’m voting “no.”

This isn’t how government should function and as an appropriator, I urge my Republican colleagues to work with us and earn our votes.

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221 N. Kansas Street
El Paso, TX
79901

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm

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+19155411400

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