page_title: Nancy Pelosi
section_title: Immigration
hierarchical_section_title: Nancy Pelosi / Political positions / Civil liberties and human rights / Immigration
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context_page_description: Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician serving as a congresswoman from California, and is the two-time and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as Speaker, and is the highest-ranking female elected official in United States history. As House speaker, Pelosi is second in the presidential line of succession, immediately after the vice president.
  Pelosi was first elected to Congress in 1987, following her father Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., who served as a U.S. Representative from Maryland and Mayor of Baltimore, into politics. She started her 17th term in 2019. She represents California's 12th congressional district, which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco. She initially represented the 5th district, and then, when district boundaries were redrawn after the 1990 Census, the 8th district. Pelosi has led the House Democrats since 2003—being the first woman to lead a party in Congress—serving twice each as House minority leader, and as Speaker.
context_section_description: Pelosi voted against the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
  In June 2018, Pelosi visited a federal facility used to detain migrant children separated from their parents and subsequently called for the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. In July, Pelosi characterized the compromise immigration bill by the Republicans as a "deal with the devil" and noted she had not had conversations with House Speaker Ryan about a legislative solution to the separation of families at the southern border.
caption: Pelosi speaking against Donald Trump's immigration ban
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