IMMIGRATION

SENATE RACE

Bob Casey (Democrat)

Wants to secure the Mexican-American border and help immigrants seeking asylum
Wants to work with other Central American countries to address the root cause of immigration.
Supports bringing undocumented immigrants into communities and the economy and unites families.
Supports securing the border and protecting national security.
Endorsed bipartisan emergency border and national security funding bill of 2024 (FEND Off Fentanyl Act and Stop Fentanly at the Border Act).

Dave McCormick (Republican)

He wants to secure the border and put an end to drug and human trafficking.

He wants to support border patrol agents and provide them with greater resources.
He is against sanctuary cities, which are places that do not honor requests from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport people.
He also supports a mandatory imprisonment minimum for deported felons who enter the country illegally.

Marty Selker (Constitution)

Wants to secure the border to keep out illegal immigrants

Believes that illegal immigration is what is bringing human trafficking to the US
Wants to invest in law enforcement who will create stricter policies for illegal immigration
Believes in making sure that the border is fully secured, and drugs are staying out of the US

Leila Hazou (Green)

Wants to allow immigrants but make the process easier.

Wants to add judges to make the process faster
Believes in making the asylum process simpler
Believes in letting illegal immigrants work legally while their asylum application is processed

John Thomas (Libertarian)

Pro-immigration

Hussein Tartour-Aguirre (Independent)

Specific information not found.

Quincy Magee (Independent - Write-in)

Specific information not found.

HOUSE RACES

House District 1

Ashley Ehasz (Democrat)

Supports creating easier pathway to citizenship.

Supports a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, for people who have not posed a threat to society, wants to make the process of immigrating here legally easier
Believes Protections for Dreamers and DACA should be codified into law

Brian Fitzpatrick (Republican)

Views the current immigration system as broken, wants to help protect immigrants and the country's security.

Wants to provide government agencies with more resources to process higher numbers of people at the border.
Wants to protect the borders, but remain compassionate for people fleeing gang violence and drug cartels.
Voted to increase penalties for criminal undocumented immigrants who reenter the country following being removed from the U.S.

House District 2

Brendan Boyle (Democrat)

Supports supporting immigrants and increased border security.

Wants to invest in immigration, saying the economic benefits will add $7 trillion
Does believe there is an issue with illegal immigration and wants to add more funds for border security and hire more border security agents.

Aaron Bashir (Republican)

Views immigration as the most pressing issues.

Wants to make it a priority to strictly enforce and strengthen immigration laws

He supports the deportation of anyone who enters the country illegally

House District 3

Dwight Evans (Democrat)

Supports comprehensive immigration reform, to keep families united and develop a path to citizenship
Supports securing the United States borders

House District 4

Madeleine Dean (Democrat)

Supports a strong legal immigration system and humane treatment.

Wants to reinstate DACA, create easier path for citizenship
Wants to end the practice of family separation

David Winkler (Republican)

Wants to allocate resources for physical border barriers, enhanced surveillance technology and increased border patrol infrastructure to strengthen security.
wants to establish a collaborative task force to combat transnational criminal organization and other illicit activities at the border.
Wants to work to create a fair and rigorous pathway to citizenship.

House District 5

Mary Gay Scanlon (Democrat)

Wants to represent immigrants and asylum seekers.

Wants to repair the complex immigration system through policy.
She has cosponsored legislation to end family separation practices.
Wants to work to ensure customs and border patrol have resources they need to protect the borders, while addressing humanitarian crisis.

Alfe Goodwin (Republican)

Wants to shut down the border.

Sees this as the most pressing issue, wants order at the border.
She wants to focus on legal immigration.

House District 6

Chrissy Houlahan (Democrat)

Wants immigration system that reflects the values of the country.

Cosponsored legislation aimed at securing permanent residency for immigrants under the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals program.
Cosponsored legislation reforming the employment immigration system, allowing local businesses to have more labor.
Wants to secure borders and voted to increase resources to better manage the border.

Neil Young (Republican)

Believes borders should be less open

Blames President Joe Biden for open borders and issues at the border with human trafficking and fentanyl overdoses.

House District 7

Susan Wild (Democrat)

Joined other Democrats to call for better security at the border, published opinion piece calling for bipartisan support for increased security.
Wants common sense border reform

Ryan Mackenzie (Republican)

Secure our nation’s border and finish building the wall. Take real action on illegal immigration by withholding taxpayer-funded grants from sanctuary cities, and requiring deportation for illegal immigrants caught committing other crimes. Crack down on birth tourism and policies that encourage anchor babies. Reinstate Remain in Mexico. Promote merit-based legal immigration that protects American workers, promotes American values, and rewards connections to America like speaking English.

House District 8

Matt Cartwright (Democrat)

Supports managing immigration with effective border policies.

He commends the Biden Administration to bring “order to the border.”

Rob Bresnahan Jr. (Republican)

Supports securing the U.S. border.

Supports building a wall to stop the entry of criminals and illegal drugs.
Supports reversing Biden/Harris policies.

House District 9

Amanda Waldman (Democrat)

Supports bipartisan border security bill.
Supports cutting asylum seeker waiting periods.

Dan Meuser (Republican)

Supports national security and effective border security.

Supported the wall along Mexico’s border.
Supported H.R. 7959, the Safeguarding Homes from Illegal Entry, Living, and Dwelling (SHIELD) Act – which would make trespassing or squatting a deportable offense for illegal aliens.
Opposes employers hiring illegal immigrants

House District 10

Janelle Stelson (Democrat)

Opposes open borders.

Does not support open borders.
Wants to find bipartisan support to hire more border agents, deport people in the country illegally and if necessary shut down the border.

Scott Perry (Republican)

Focuses on securing U.S. borders.

Working to establish verifiable enforcement measures that ensure visitors leave when they're supposed to.
Provides agricultural industries with the workers they need; requires immigrants to understand and speak basic English.
Revise Visa programs to attract and keep more entrepreneurs, investors and highly skilled workers in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

House District 11

Jim Atkinson (Democrat)

Specific information not found.

Lloyd Smucker (Republican)

Supports securing the border

Signed H.R. 2 to address Biden’s policies that have been failing to gain operational control of the nation’s borders.
Supports legislation to combat immigration, which he considers a humanitarian and national security crisis.

House District 12

Summer Lee (Democrat)

Supports immigration and believes that no human being is illegal.

Supports immigrant families as an essential part of the Pennsylvania community and economy.
Supports and believes that immigrants should be treated with respect, and is striving to fix the overburdened immigration system.

James Hayes (Republican)

Opposes immigration that results from illegally crossing the border.

Supports gaining control of the border and ending illegal border crossing
Believes that illegal border crossing has been a tragedy on many levels during Biden’s presidency.
Believes that illegal immigration has led to human suffering due to the exposure of fentanyl leading to drug deaths, and contributing to the housing shortage
Supports a return of House Bill 1

House District 13

Beth Farnham (Democrat)

Supports immigration.

Supports strengthening ways for undocumented immigrants to to pursue legal status
Supports the continuation of labor efforts by undocumented immigrants to continue their contribution to the economy

John Joyce (Republican)

Urged passage of legislation to address border security in 2023
Wanted to pass the Secure the Border Act, would initiate resumption of border wall construction, end “catch and release” programs and add additional U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents.

House District 14

Chris Dziados (Democrat)

Supports Bi-Partisan Immigration Bill

Guy Reschenthaler (Republican)

Supports legislation to fix the “broken immigration system”

Wants Congress to pass legislation to fix the immigration system, enhance border security with a wall and end sanctuary city policies.

House District 15

Zach Womer (Democrat)

Opposes illegal immigration.

Supports more border agents
Supports more asylum justices to clear the backlog
Believes that illegal immigrants have undercut the wages of U.S. citizens

Glenn Thompson (Republican)

Supports stopping the flow of migrants.

Supports enforcing the law as the best way to stop the migrants and convicted criminals walking into the U.S.
Said Congress needs to “act to stop the flow of migrants” from the southern border after a trip to the border in January.
Voted no on codifying and expanding amnesty granted by DACA in 2021.

House District 16

Preston Nouri (Democrat)

Supports secure border, and supports Dreamers.

Mike Kelly (Republican)

Introduced a resolution in 2023 to “Recognize the influx of known or suspected terrorists through America’s northern border as a threat to national security.”
Founded Northern Border Security Caucus in 2023.

House District 17

Chris Deluzio (Democrat)

He wrote for Trib Total Media about the need to fix “our broken border and immigration system” with bipartisan unity.
Believes many people in South and Central America live under threat of sexual assault, murder and kidnapping and try to escape by seeking asylum in the United States, while the current Biden immigration system fails both the nation and immigrants themselves.

Rob Mercuri (Republican)

Supports efforts to seal the border.

Supports a bill that would prohibit PA municipalities from designating themselves as “sanctuary” locations.
Supports establishing drug task forces to cut off suppliers and distributors.