Cecilia Munoz
Cecilia Munoz
Cecilia Muñozis director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Prior to that, she served as the White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. A longtime civil rights advocate, she worked as Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza, a nonprofit organization established to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans, overseeing advocacy activities that cover issues of importance to immigrants. In 2000, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 July 1962
CityDetroit, MI
We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of people are at stake here. Folks are going to demand that Congress step to the plate and act.
It doesn't really deal with why people are migrating or why our economy is so dependent on their labor. The resourcefulness of people on both sides of the border is likely to be greater than a fence.
I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all very aware that this is history in the making, and the country will be transformed by it.
This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here.
That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.
Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public in a very profound way.
Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conference making terrific proposals that would benefit the immigrant community.
There was real progress today, enormous progress today. We knew from the beginning that you need a bipartisan proposal in order to pass the Senate. That appears to be what the Judiciary Committee is proposing.
It's a dangerous game the Republicans are playing.
If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
Though he is relatively new to Washington, he has blended right in as an advocate because he knows what he's talking about. He has a great passion for the community.
There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothing about that.
The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.
If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ourselves.