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WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today introduced the No Private Bounty Hunters for Immigration Enforcement Act, legislation to prohibit the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from outsourcing civil immigration enforcement functions such as skip tracing, surveillance, and location verification to private contractors operating under profit-driven or incentive-based arrangements.
SCHAUMBURG, IL—Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued the following statement today:
“We must abolish Trump’s ICE. I will not support one more dollar for ICE as long as this agency—operating without oversight and accountability—continues to kill and injure our neighbors. We saw what they did to Renée Good. We saw how they acted in Chicago. Secretary Noem must immediately testify before our Oversight Committee about ICE’s impunity and the dangerous policies that enabled these tragedies.”
WASHINGTON — In response to President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy federal forces against anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) announced that he is offering an amendment to the defense funding bill to block any such deployment unless it is explicitly requested and supported by the governor of the affected state.
WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) introduced the First Home Affordability Act, legislation to help first-time homebuyers, especially working and middle-class families in Illinois, overcome the biggest barrier to homeownership: upfront costs.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) voted against the fiscal year 2026 State Department funding bill and released the following statement explaining his vote:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) issued the following statement in response to reports that the Trump administration, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has sent letters abruptly terminating federal grants that fund addiction treatment, overdose prevention, and mental-health services nationwide:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi condemned President Trump’s renewed threat to unlawfully withhold Congressionally approved funding from Chicago and other cities whose laws prohibit local law enforcement from assisting in immigration enforcement operations with ICE and other federal agencies.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) today sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanding that DHS categorically rule out Venezuela as a destination for third-country deportations and halt any actions that would place vulnerable people into conditions of danger, lawlessness, or abuse.
WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) called on Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) to immediately schedule a public hearing requiring Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to provide sworn testimony on deadly enforcement actions, unlawful detentions and deportations of U.S. citizens, and a documented pattern of abuse under her leadership.