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April 30, 2025
Today, Congresswoman Norma Torres, alongside her colleagues Congresswoman Grace Meng, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, and Congressman Robert Garcia introduced the Fairness to Freedom Act—legislation aimed at ensuring the right to federal legal representation for all immigrants facing deportation. The stakes for immigrant communities have never been higher, as the Trump Administration is making it harder to get a fair process during immigration proceedings. The need for legal representation a… Continue Reading
April 29, 2025Today, Congresswoman Norma J. Torres reintroduced two bills designed to strengthen legal protections for survivors of sexual violence, specifically targeting nonconsensual condom removal, also known as "stealthing." The bills, introduced at the close of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, to provide crucial legal recourse and financial support for victims of sexual assault. In 2021, California became the first state to make it a civil offense for someone to remove a condom without their partner’s c… Continue Reading
April 29, 2025Congresswoman Norma J. Torres sent a letter to President Xiomara Castro of Honduras today, urging immediate action to protect U.S. citizen children who were unlawfully removed from the United States by the Trump Administration. The letter follows recent reports that several American children were forcibly removed from the country, in violation of their constitutional rights. The Congresswoman expressed grave concern over the illegal actions that saw these U.S. citizen children, some of whom ar… Continue Reading
August 19, 2019
Building a shelter in the Inland Empire to house up to 430 unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border doesn't make sense and raises "serious concerns," four House Democrats who represent the region wrote in a letter Monday, Aug. 19.The two-page letter addressed to the head of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement comes as the office seeks to lease space for a shelter for "Unaccompanied Alien Children." Officials are searching an area encompassing much of western Riverside Count… Continue Reading
August 16, 2019Congressional representatives and immigrant advocates are criticizing the federal government's proposal to open a new shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in the Inland Empire.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement is looking to lease a site of up to 91,000 square feet to house approximately 430 children, according to a solicitation posted Aug. 5 by the General Services Administration on the Federal Business Opportunities website.The shelter is sla… Continue Reading
August 15, 2019The National Science Foundation awarded a $475,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to Cal Poly Pomona, it was announced Monday.The funding will enable Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate researchers to expand research into the "metal-nitrogen oxide interactions and enable the recruitment of a diverse Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics workforce," according to a statement released by the office of U.S. Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-Pomona."Cal Poly Pomona is shaping the next gene… Continue Reading