Julian Castro in Survey of 2020 Presidential campaign websites

On Welfare & Poverty: Government can help needy families get back on their feet

As the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, I worked to expand the promise of opportunity to Americans all over the nation. Together, my team and I made housing more accessible, lessened homelessness among our nation's veterans and even offered internet access to families in public housing. We set out to help families get back on their feet and achieve more than they thought possible. Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website JulianForTheFuture.com Mar 27, 2019

On Immigration: We can have compassion AND border security

Just two generations after my grandmother came across this border, one of her grandsons, my brother Joaquin, is a member of Congress, and I'm running for President. Our nation has always been a country of immigrants, folks who have made a profound and positive difference to our nation's progress. We can have a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. Don't believe Trump's lies--we don't have to choose between border security and being compassionate. We can have both. Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website JulianForTheFuture.com Feb 11, 2019

On Crime: We must face police violence against minorities

When I announced I was running for President, I promised you that confronting and addressing police violence in communities of color would be one of my priorities. I stand by what I said that day: if police in Charleston can arrest [the white supremacist mass shooter there] after he murdered nine people at Bible study without hurting him, then don't tell me that Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, and Aiyana Jones, Eric Garner Jason Pero, Stephon Clark and Sandra Bland shouldn't still be alive today.

I will work to ensure funding so that every officer who patrols our streets wears a body camera. I will target unconscious racial biases in policing and increasing accountability of law enforcement officials. This will include executive actions aimed at demanding immediate data collection on use of force by law enforcement, strengthening and increasing enforcement of federal protections against discriminatory policing, and directing increased resources to unconscious bias awareness trainings.

Source: 2020 Presidential campaign website JulianForTheFuture.com Feb 8, 2019

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