Common-sense Immigration Reform
As the great-grandson of immigrants, Chris understands that legal immigration helps make our nation stronger. Immigrants enrich our communities, grow our economy, and are vital to the future of this country. But for far too long, politicians in both parties have kicked the can, played politics, and failed to take meaningful action to reform our immigration system and secure our borders.
Chris supports comprehensive, common-sense immigration reform that will help fix our broken system and allow immigrants who work hard and follow the rules get a shot at their American dream. It must also address security on our border by enhancing infrastructure and technology to keep our country safe. Chris helped pass legislation to support and strengthen protections for millions DREAMERs who know no other home but the United States.
After New Hampshire was left in the dark by the Trump Administration, Chris joined local leaders and citizens to successfully block an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the town of Merrimack and introduced legislation to preserve local control before any new facility is constructed. Chris believes that ICE must focus on their core mission: ensuring that individuals who are here illegally, who are violent, and breaking our laws are deported. Under this administration ICE is out of control and far beyond ICE’s intended role, conducting operations that are actually making our country less safe. American citizens and taxpayers deserve accountable government and commonsense guardrails for ICE. That is why Chris wrote the bill to redirect ICE’s $75 billion slush fund to local law enforcement to improve public safety.
Chris helped introduce the Comprehensive Southern Border Strategy Act, which would create a strategy to secure our Southern border. He has supported legislation to increase enforcement on individuals who cross the border illegally and commit serious crimes, enhance coordination between state and local officials on the southern border, and fund 22,000 border patrol agents, including 150 counter-fentanyl officers. Chris led the successful effort to better coordinate resources and strengthen security along New Hampshire’s northern border.