Dupage Policy Journal

DuPage County U.S. Representative Delia Ramirez says it its the "human right" of foreign nationals to immigrate illegally to the United States, and she says U.S. taxpayers should pay for their living expenses as they "resettle" here.

Ramirez made the comment on X on Saturday.

"We must look beyond security and enforcement strategies at our border," she wrote. "The situation requires (taxpayer-funded) long-term solutions that maximize (illegal alien) families' choices and present various opportunities (to illegal aliens) to re-settle safely in (Chicagoland)."

Ramirez visited Panama last week "to understand the humanitarian crisis unfolding as record numbers of displaced peoples from across the world risk dangerous travel through the Darién (Gap)" in that country.

Elected in 2022, Ramirez represents Illinois’ new Third Congressional District, which includes parts of Elmhurst, Wood Dale, Bensenville, Addison, Glen Ellyn, Wheaton, Glendale Heights, Carol Stream, Naperville, Warrenville and West Chicago.

The district, which stretches from the West Side of Chicago, across West Cook County, across DuPage, then back north into Kane County and Elgin, was gerrymandered to produce a Hispanic member of Congress.

Ramirez is a member of the so-called “Squad” in the Democrat caucus, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), and Summer Lee (D-Pa.).