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
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.
The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote.
If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for us in how do we advise our constituents.
It's a dangerous game the Republicans are playing.
This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordinary harm to people.
It is a bill that has driven more than a million people out this week.
The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.
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.