Issue Position: Welcome Immigrants to The American Promise

Issue Position

Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. Jake's great-grandfather, a Russian Jew, fled the pogroms and built a small business in Massachusetts. From those refugee roots, his granddaughter, Jake's mother, became the first female CEO of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

America's promise is that the condition of your birth should not determine the outcome of your life. We fail that promise when we shut our doors to immigrants and refugees, or when we deprive those here of the same rights and opportunities of native-born Americans.

As a Newton city councilor, Jake co-docketed Newton's Welcoming City ordinance, protecting immigrants from ICE overreach. In Congress, Jake will be a steadfast and vocal advocate for America as a nation of immigrants, and will work to roll back the Trump administration's cruel and counterproductive immigration policies.

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