Lofgren has prioritized partisan politics over the Latino community

If the measure of a politician is oldness and staleness, then Rep. Zoe Lofgren is a giant among men.  She has been in elected office for more than 44 years, having served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors for fourteen years before serving in Congress for nearly 30 years.  She represents a majority-Latino district, a community that feels as though they deserve representation that prioritizes their interests above partisanship and political games.

Rep. Lofgren is a leftist firebrand — a member of the Bay Area squad led by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi that aged quickly into the party establishment, with the monied backing of Big Tech.  She is widely known as one Pelosi’s top ‘enforcers’, earning her powerful positions as Ranking Member of the Science and Technology Committee, and the second most senior member of the all-powerful Judiciary Committee.

As such, Lofgren naturally prioritizes Pelosi’s partisan political games over the working class Mexican American constituency that has been in San Jose since before California was in the United States.

Despite serving as the Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, Citizenship, and Refugees, she has failed to address the humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border.

Lofgren had an opportunity to work with five different presidents to secure the border and to fix the broken immigration system.  Instead, she has prioritized far-left politics and refused to work across the party aisle every time that there was an opening to do so.  Lofgren’s politicking on the border crisis has, in many ways, created the unprecedented humanitarian crisis that we face today.

Lofgren voted against the Border Security Bill of 2005.  Lofgren voted against the Secure Fence Act of 2006.  Lofgren voted against the Immigration Act of 2006, which was a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform plan being advanced by President George W. Bush.  Lofgren voted against the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018.

Lofgren has been no friend to immigrants – even voting against humanitarian assistance for migrants at the border.  Lofgren voted against emergency appropriations to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants at the southern border, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act of 2019 (6/25/19).  Lofgren voted against the Undocumented Immigrant Emergency Medical Assistance legislation being considered in 2004.

Lofgren twice voted against Immigration Reform legislation that was being considered in 1996.

In recent weeks, young activists and leaders in San Jose’s historic Latino neighborhoods have been rising up to mobilize against Zoe Lofgren to oust her at the ballot box.  The activists are deeply concerned about Lofgren’s relentless support of Big Tech, which has translated into a relentless gentrification of the City most marginalized populations.