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January 22, 2026
Congresswoman Norma Torres introduced a package of amendments to the fiscal year 2026 Homeland Security funding bill to deliver urgent disaster relief, protect children and veterans, increase public safety, and ensure accountability and transparency in how taxpayer dollars are spent. The House Rules Committee rejected all of Congresswoman Torres’s proposed amendments. “As Congress debates homeland security funding, we have a responsibility to protect people, stop ICE and CBP’s abuses of the law… Continue Reading
January 17, 2026Today, Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA-35) is demanding the immediate release of Jose Oleaz, a Pomona resident and father to his 13-year-old nephew, after ICE detained him during a raid this week, leaving a child who has already suffered devastating loss without the father who has been raising him. Jose Oleaz has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, works steadily, and poses no threat to public safety. Yet ICE detained him anyway, despite knowing he is the primary parent to a minor… Continue Reading
January 15, 2026— This week, New Dem Members hosted a roundtable with housing policy experts and industry representatives for a robust conversation about what Congress can do to help build more homes and address the national housing affordability crisis. New Dems hosted the roundtable with Housing, Infrastructure, & Transportation Working Group Chair Norma Torres (CA-35), Vice Chair for Outreach Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Housing Task Force Chair Emilia Sykes (OH-13), and were joined by a dozen additional N… 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