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HAC-HS Chair, Immigrant Advocate Royba-Allard To Retire

HAC-HS Chair, Immigrant Advocate Royba-Allard To Retire
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the House panel that appropriates funds for the Department of Homeland Security and a champion of liberal immigration policies, on Monday evening announced that she will retire from Congress at the end of her current term. Roybal-Allard, who in 1992 became the first Mexican-American to be elected to Congress and in 2019 became the first Latina to chair a House Appropriations Subcommittee, said on Twitter that “the time has come for me to…

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