“We have to give some certainty to these young men and women—some of these young women that have families now—about what is their status in this country. So I think everyone's, you know, kind of dancing around the main topic. But at the end of the day, we're just going to have to come to the realizat…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.orgTagged: Donald Trump, Certainty, families, Immigration
“I have legislative policies that I'm interested in—equal pay for equal work, child care, paid leave, college affordability, education, agriculture. But outside of that, I feel it's critical that people be passionate and feel invested in politics. I want to see women run for office at all levels. And…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.orgTagged: Legislation, equal work, Child Care, paid leave, Education
“On the day of the swearing-in, it really hit me, the significance of the whole thing. It hadn't sunk in until I was standing there on the floor with my hand in the air and reciting that oath. It's one of the highlights of my life. I carried a scarf with me that my sister had made for me. She started…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.orgTagged: swearing-in, reconstruction, Illiteracy, voting
“We've had a lot of conversations about what we're willing to do. And border security has always been a part of that. You know, what we're not going to do is fund a stupid wall for the sake of saying that we funded a wall, for the sake of, you know, fulfilling the president's ego and, specifically, h…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.orgTagged: Donald Trump, Immigration, border security, wall
“I do feel frustrated because I think that we had the best opportunity to pass this when we had it all together at once. And, you know, there's a lot of, you know, talk about taking care of our military. And I think people forget that there is 10,000 DREAMers that are actually in—well, 1,000 that are…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.orgTagged: Donald Trump, Immigration, Frustration, DREAM Act, Dreamers