Nanette Barragán

thumb|Barragán, in 2017 Nanette Díaz Barragán (born September 15, 1976) is an American politician and attorney, who is currently serving as the Democratic representative for California's 44th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2017. Besides that, she has also once served as a city councilmember of the city of Hermosa Beach from 2013 until 2015. Quotes This is an abuse of power and what dictators do. It's unnecessary and not needed. taken from a webpage from the California State Portal, 8 June 2025 There's no targeted effort here to find criminals. Like they said we're going to do. They're sweeping up friends and neighbors of people who are just trying to find jobs at these worksites outside of Home Depot. It was the sheriffs who got things under control, not the National Guard. In downtown L.A. that night, it was the LAPD who got things under control, it was not the National Guard. You bring up the National Guard, you rise tensions. People come out and this is what you're starting to see happen. This is a sign of a dictator who takes over a National Guard against the governor's will, [and] against all elected officials' will. The presence of the National Guard in itself is sending that message, "we're here to take you over." This is to empower the president to flex his muscles. There is a way to do enforcement. It's targeted enforcement. It's been done over and over again and hasn't resulted in this. This is really a distraction. We saw that happening starting when [he said he's] going to defund California and stop giving the federal money. Now he's taking it to the immigration front. So this is his game plan and we can't let people fall into it. We have to make sure not to take the bait, not to do the violence. taken from an interview with NPR, 9 June 2025 They're just treating everybody as a criminal. They're not distinguishing between who are the real criminals versus -- which are the folks that they're saying they're going after, versus everybody else. If you are going after serious criminal offenders, we support that. There is no disagreement about that. But they're not doing targeted enforcement. What they're doing is, they're doing mass deportation, round up of just everybody, let's see who we can get. Some of those people, they're just dismissing their cases. They're trampling on due process. They're not even getting access to a lawyer. When you spread it out and say, we're just going to go get anybody we can, that's actually making us less safe, because now you're using resources to get people who are their friends, their neighbors. taken from an interview with CNN, 10 June 2025 I've gotten a piece of the American dream, but now I'm running to make sure others have that same opportunity and that in a nutshell is why I'm running for Congress. We were looking at social justice issues. Back then, we were talking about racial profiling. What has happened now? It's just gotten worse. I believe that education is the number one equalizer. Talk about opportunity, we all just want a chance, a shot at the American Dream and how do you get there? In school. Education. Every one of you here can make that difference in this race. This is how we get our message out. We tell people who I am, we tell people who were fighting for, and I can't do it without you because money and politics is buying our elected officials. taken from one of her campaign speeches (published by Iowa State University), 2 September 2016 External links Category:Politicians from Los Angeles Category:Living people Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:1976 births Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians Category:Mexican Americans