With the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act finally signed into law and the Build Back Better Act passed in the House, Congress must continue working for the American people and support our communities across the nation. America’s immigration system hasn’t been reformed in decades and, like our nation’s infrastructure, is in desperate need of repair to protect the immigrants endangered by its failures.

For the past four years, immigrants across the nation, including my family, held our collective breath as Donald Trump pursued a hateful agenda designed to separate us from our homes and communities. After a long and tumultuous campaign cycle, millions of American immigrants exhaled as Joe Biden was elected the 46th President of the United States.