All residents of California need to do their part to conserve water and we need to review building more reservoirs and potentially building new desalination plants at strategic locations within the state. Most importantly, we need to treat the supply of clean drinking water as a national security item because all humans require water to live.

America needs comprehensive immigration reform now. We are a nation of immigrants and must never forget this fact. I voted for this in the past and press the administration every chance I get to bring it forward again, again and again until will pass it, get it through the Senate and have the President sign it into law.

I supported and voted for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. This act will preserve, protect and defend everyone's right to vote and will ensure states cannot discriminate against certain voting groups.

I am a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal. America can have both green energy and a vibrant economy. I support both.

The California drought is proof of the climate crisis. Our principal water sources, rainfalls, and out of state sources are mostly at record lows, even though the state is using less water. Yes, we’ve had considerable rainfall as in 2017 and dangerous floods, but these are rare and our infrastructure wasn’t enough to capitalize on it and store excess water.

We must act urgently now before it becomes impossible to meet the needs of cities, farmers and our natural ecosystems. I will work together with our scientific community that’s on the forefront of water science, technology, management and will take emergency level action. Our lives and that of future generations depend on it. The Green New Deal is front and center, and I commit to go beyond rubber stamping it with approval, but will author legislation to reach a 100% carbon neutral economy by 2030. As an environmental and Green New Deal champion, I will set forth actionable policy within-and-in-conjunction with the Clean Water Act and the Waters of the US rule, to reverse the effects of climate, and make the California drought history.

We must rethink water management, and I will focus on renewable options to address water shortages, including investing in recycling wastewater, stormwater capturing, desalinating seawater, on top of infrastructure investments to be prepared for future storms and be proactive about protecting urban and suburban areas that are vulnerable to flooding, and to capture and store excess water. I will bring funding to reinforce dams and their emergency spillways, to avoid future incidents such as with Lake Oroville when the dam's spillway structure suffered potentially catastrophic damage from water excess. Considering impoundments in our riverways, we must leverage green technologies to capture high flows and rainwater. My office’s legislative efforts wil center investing on key forms of water recycling in terms of fit-for-purpose end uses, such as projects for water purification to produce potable water with the help of groundwater basins, biofiltration systems in lagoons, secondary and tertiary water treatment projects for activities such as landscaping and other beneficial societal purposes.

In California, farmers use more water than city folk, yet, we must acknowledge that while cities focus on irrigation of our front yard green lawns and golf courses, California farmers are producing 40% of the country's agricultural products, ensuring that we have fruits, vegetables, and other food on city tables. We must change how we prioritize water use, make long-term attitude adjustments to how we value water, and government spending can be key to educate and increase public awareness.

My legislative efforts will prioritize efficiency, fairness and equity in water access and use, balancing the needs of the environment with societal needs, to ensure we don't continue to over-tax water sources, as these are homes to water species and crucial survival sources for wildlife too. The same goes for our underrepresented communities, to ensure that they are prioritized, and not only think about affluent communities and economic benefits.

Yes, absolutely, we need humane immigration reform because migration is a human right. Immigration Reform is of utmost importance to me. I've experienced family separation first-hand, and don't wish it upon anyone. As a child, my mother and siblings were left homeless after my father was deported. I will prioritize a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, farm workers, veterans and TPS holders, in addition to bringing deported veterans home and extending citizenship to them. As well as ending the remain in Mexico policy, and author federal legislation that prevents cruel policies like MPP and Title 42 to ever be enacted again, and to provide citizenship to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, effectively abolishing ICE as there would be no more need for the cruel agency to exist.

Our immigration system is rooted in racism and white supremacy, which have been like a cancer eating away the very fabric of democracy and the freedom that the founding fathers promised. We must ensure that we have humane immigration policies that aren't rooted in racism, but that reflect the values of justice for all, defending human rights, and taking care of each other as we claim to do in this country.

When it comes to handling the growing number of refugees and asylum seekers from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Central and South America and elsewhere, the US should return to policies similar to the pre-Trump era where refugees and asylum seekers were allowed entry while their cases were processes, which did not lead to the border crisis as we have now. People have been migrating to this country since its inception, yet, most recently, our immigration laws have been rooted in racism and white supremacy, allowing only the undisturbed entry of Caucasian refugees, and making it harder for those of color to enter. In addition to processing black and brown migrants the same way we do white migrants, I will author legislation to close the migrant concentration camps, which will come easy to me as I do not take corporate money, especially not from the corporations that profit from running the inhumane migrant detention centers where children are caged and migrant women were being sterilized without their knowledge.

I am proud of the work I've done to protect the right to vote nationwide, while serving at All On The Line via the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by President Obama's former Attorney General, Eric Holder.

Voting rights are under attack nationwide, through voter suppression laws and tactics like voter ID and gerrymandering, which unjustly put primarily disadvantaged voters who are of color, women, working-class, and of low-income. This adds to how only the rich and powerful are the ones who are and remain in office. These tactics violate our constitutional right to choose our own representatives. If we are going to succeed as a democracy and have a fighting chance to address all the issues above, we need to level the playing field by protecting our voters.

I am fighting to put an end to partisan gerrymandering to create fair and just congressional districts. I will author legislation ensuring that the Census is not used as a tool to disenfranchise voters so that everyone is counted, and to create a national fund for voting centers to foster civic engagement and enhance access to the vote.

If COVID-19 has taught us something, it's how essential it is to expand early voting and online voter registration, at the same time as fighting against all tactics that hinder voters' right to vote, including voter photo ID laws, last-minute Election Day and voter registration process barriers.

New generations have proven to be much more engaged and knowledgeable than previous ones, and I am seeking to lower the voting age to 16 so that they too can vote for policies that impact their future. Lastly, the US constitutionally protects every person's right to vote, and we must all laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from exercising their constitutional right to vote.

Congress can start by providing funding to invest in transforming our national power grid to 100% renewable energy, effectively ending our dependence on fossil fuels, which are only exacerbating the climate crisis. We are in a climate crisis that seems to have no end and it will have life threatening consequences for future generations beyond what we are experiencing. Legislative efforts must be ambitious if we're going to have a chance of surviving this as a human race. There's no time to waste on small incremental policy steps to reverse the effects of climate change. The longer we take to act, the more overwhelmingly impossible it will get.

Therefore, passing a Green New Deal is top priority, as this effort comes with legislation that will transform our economy and address everything from climate change and housing to jobs and immigration. It would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by upgrading buildings for energy efficiency, shift national power generation to 100% clean renewable energy sources, and help us reach 100% carbon neutrality by 2030, while creating powerful competitive advantages with strong investment in the green jobs sector by establishing a federal jobs guarantee. I will focus on increasing investments in green technologies and their use in both public and private sectors, and mitigate social inequities caused by climate change like environmental racism that has threatened neighborhoods like Barrio Logan, Otay River Valley, and the South bay cities of National City, Chula Vista and Imperial Beach.

In addition, the Green New Deal goes beyond to even include legislation for the implementation of single-payer universal healthcare (Medicare For All), a national homes guarantee, tuition-free public colleges and universities, and livable wages.