Jr. I have recently joined with Congressman FILEMON VELA to send a letter to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection requesting that they reclassify the death of Javier Vega. Jr.. as a lineofduty fatality. Everybody in law enforcement knows that you are never truly off duty. and Javiers brave actions that fateful day back in 2014 should be classified as a death occurring in the line of duty. just like every other law enforcement officer. I look forward to hearing back from the Commissioner on this soon. I am thankful to Paul Perez. president of the National Border Patrol Council in Kingsville. and to the Rio Grande Valley Union of the National Border Patrol Council for helping the Vega family highlight this issue. We have a duty to help our brave men and women in law enforcement do their job by passing this legislation and to regain some of the lost confidence the American people used to have in our ability to actually do our job and to keep illegal immigrant criminals and repeat offenders off our streets. This issue is not going away. There are countless other stories in Texas and across the country. such as the story of Kate Steinle. out in San Francisco. who tragically was murdered by the same sort of repeat illegal immigrant criminal who killed Harvey Vega. There are a lot more stories to tella lot more stories that I hope we will tell in the coming days. It is our duty as Members of Congress to put a stop to this. and I pledge to keep fighting on behalf of the Vega family for legislation that will do just that.
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Generalizing undocumented immigrants as criminals.