Candidates

Immigrants' List selects candidates based on their beliefs and their desire to actively pursue immigration reform once in Congress.  Immigrants' List works to ensure that pro-immigration reform candidates in competitive districts are not afraid to work for meaningful reform.  Have a candidate you'd like us to look into?  E-mail us at info@immigrantslist.org.

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2008 Election

 

 

 Congressman Jeff Flake (R) AZ-06

Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Co-Sponsor of STRIVE Act. To learn more about Jeff Flake's record on immigration please click on his picture.

 

 

Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D) MA-05

Immigrants' List supported Congressional Candidate Niki Tsongas during her hardfought special election for Massachusetts 5th Congressional District.  Tsongas showed an unwavering commitment to immigration reform despite relentless attacks by her opponent. To learn more information on where Nikki Tsongas views are on  immigration please click on her picture to watch a youtube video.

 

Senator Ted Kennedy (D)

Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, & Border Security. To learn more about Snator Kennedy's record on immigration please click on his picture.

 

 

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D) CA-16th

Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. To learn more about Zoe Lofgren  record on immigration please click on her picture.

 

 

Congressman John Conyers  (D) MI-14th

Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. To learn more about John Conyers record on immigration please click on his picture.

 

 

 

Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D) TX- 23rd

Member, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Former Chairman of Congressional Hispanic Caucus. To learn more about Ciro Rodriguez record on immigration please click on his picture.

 

 

Congressman Howard Berman (D) CA-28th

Member, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration & House Committee on Foreign Affairs. To learn more about Howard Berman's record on immigration please click on his picture.

 

 

Maxine Waters (D) CA-35TH

Member, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration & Subcommittee on Homeland Security. To learn more about Maxine Waters record on immigration please click on her picture.

 

 

 

  Bob Lord (D) AZ -03 fought and made tremendous inroads the last couple of weeks before the election but failed short to anti-immigration Incumbent John Shaddegg ( R )

   Dennis Shulman (D) NJ-05 was under attack the last two week because of his association with pro-immigration groups like IL. Unfortunately he lost to Incumbent Scott Garrett (R )  

  Michael Skelly (D) TX-07 lost to John Culberson (R ) who at one point was  anti-immigration but began meeting with pro-immigration organizations in Texas in the middle of Johns campaign.

 

Past Candidates

2006 Election

Tammy Duckworth

Duckworth, an Army Major who lost her legs in Iraq, ran against Peter Roskam for the seat of retiring Congressman Henry Hyde.  Roskam ran his campaign on an enforcement only platform; his anti-immigration rhetoric accused Ms. Duckworth of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants.  Roskam and his funders won by spending an estimated $10 million on the race, running three separate anti-immigrant smear ads.

 

 

David Mejias 

Mejias ran against anti-immigrant Congressman Peter King.  Last year, King proposed that people of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent should go through additional security checks.  In what was once a safe seat,  King now knows his extremist views are out of touch with his common-sense, progressive district.  King was only able to hold the seat by outspending Mejias two to one.