Issue Position: Norton Establishes First Congressional Latino Council

Issue Position

As congressional issues affecting Latinos proliferated, Norton created the city's first Congressional Latino Council, with representatives from prominent Latino community groups, to sharpen the focus on the many federal issues affecting her Latino constituents. The Council meets regularly to advise her on congressional and federal matters. For example, earlier this year, Council members told Norton of their concerns about the Secure Communities initiative, a joint federal city program. She subsequently contacted Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier to make her aware of these concerns.

Norton, a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a constitutional lawyer, also asked the U.S. Department of Justice to seek an injunction on the discriminatory Arizona law aimed at identifying those immigrants. She is a cosponsor of the DREAM Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to work their way to citizenship by enrolling in college or serving in the armed forces.

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