Brad Schneider represents Illinois’s 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, where he is serving his fourth term. He is a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means and House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He has previously served on the House Judiciary and Small Business committees.
As a member of Congress, Brad is focused on building a thriving economy that works for all Americans, and ensuring every family has affordable health care, quality education and a rising standard of living. He knows that our communities are stronger when small businesses invest and grow, our environment is healthy, and people are working together for a better future.
Fixing our broken immigration system will grow our economy, reduce our debt, and strengthen our communities. We need to come together, in a bipartisan effort, to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Since our nation’s founding, immigrants have provided the diversity, energy and wealth of knowledge and innovation that help our country prosper. Unfortunately, our current immigration system is badly broken. Deficiencies in the legal immigration process coupled with imperfect border security have resulted in more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living within our borders, functioning in a shadow economy that disregards their personal integrity and disadvantages American workers.
It is essential that we enact comprehensive immigration reform that secures our border and includes a pathway to citizenship for those here illegally. In my first term in Congress, I was proud to help introduce comprehensive immigration reform legislation, and remain committed to finding a solution. In particular, we must ensure the “DREAMers” brought here as children can live without fear of deportation in the only country that many of them have ever known.