Janet Murguía, president and CEO of UnidosUS, applauded Sen. Bob Menendez's plan to manage migration and refugees in the Americas.
Murguía praised the plan, citing its focus on the push factors driving migration, according to an April 19 news release. The four pillars of the plan include creating new legal pathways, increasing resources at the border to process asylum seekers, expanding humanitarian assistance and elevating efforts to counter transnational criminal organizations involved in human trafficking and smuggling.
“We applaud Sen. Bob Menendez for his timely, pragmatic and forward-looking plan to address the humanitarian challenges our country is facing on our southern border. His plan is the kind of constructive and solutions-driven vision that Hispanic voters and millions of other Americans want to see: an immigration system that is humane, efficient and secure,” Murguía said in the release.
Murguía contrasted Menendez's plan with the House GOP's proposal, which she called harmful, cruel and myopic, and urged President Joe Biden to use Menendez's plan as a blueprint as the administration prepares for the end of Title 42, the release said.
Murguía condemned the House GOP's proposal for slamming the country's centuries-old door to refugees, subjecting children and families to detention and failing to address the drivers of migration or equip the federal government with the tools and funding it needs to manage humanitarian migrants at the southern border, the release said.
UnidosUS is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that serves as the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, according to the release. It challenges social, economic and political barriers that affect Latinos through research, advocacy, programs and an affiliate network of nearly 300 community-based organizations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
UnidosUS believes in an America where economic, political and social progress is a reality for all Latinos and collaborates across communities to achieve it, the release said.
