Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Greg Stanton (AZ-04), Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) and Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) sent two letters demanding greater transparency regarding the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) recent acquisition of a warehouse reportedly intended to be converted into a 1,500-bed detention facility in Surprise, Arizona. "Arizonans don't want a detention facility across the street from their house or the neighborhood high school. DHS hasn't done the bare minimum to communicate with local and county officials about how they'll mitigate the impacts on the West Valley community, and they haven't communicated to Congress how they'll make an industrial warehouse fit to hold human beings," said Rep. Stanton. "Let's be clear: this is Trump's disastrous mass deportation machine in action."

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Congressman Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) issued the following statement:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representative Greg Stanton (AZ-04), Representative Adelita S. Grijalva (AZ-07) and Representative Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) released the following statements in response to Secretary Noem's press conference in Nogales, Arizona:

PHOENIX-Today, U.S. Congressman Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) issued the following statement: "After yet another death at the hands of federal immigration agents, Secretary Kristi Noem's response has been as reckless and disqualifying as her broader incompetence and mismanagement at DHS.

U.S. Congressman Greg Stanton (D-AZ) today condemned congressional Republican leaders for pushing billions into an out-of-control Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency without needed accountability measures, saying the FY26 Homeland Security spending bill lacks "real, enforceable oversight that holds agents who break the law responsible." Stanton, who voted against the funding bill, also introduced legislation that redirects ICE funding Congressional Republicans passed over the summer to local communities to help hire more police officers and strengthen public safety.