Illinois — 4th District

Patty Garcia

Supports citizenship pathway, abolishing ICE

Garcia advocates for comprehensive immigration reform, including legal protections and pathways to citizenship for Dreamers and undocumented families. She criticizes aggressive enforcement tactics and supports fundamentally restructuring immigration enforcement agencies, including abolishing ICE.

• Supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
• Protects Dreamers and mixed-status families
• Calls for fundamentally restructuring immigration enforcement agencies, including abolishing ICE

“She also supports fundamentally restructuring immigration enforcement agencies, including abolishing ICE.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports border wall, ending sanctuary policies

Castillo calls for strict border security, completing the southern border wall, and ending catch-and-release policies. She opposes sanctuary cities and advocates for reforming the asylum seeking process.

• Finish building the southern border wall
• End sanctuary city policies and catch-and-release practices
• Reform the process for processing asylum seekers

“we need to control our borders, they've been effective for over 200 years and the Biden administration has broken it.”

Patty Garcia

Supports higher wages, corporate price-gouging penalties

Garcia focuses on raising wages, strengthening union protections, and lowering costs for working families. She advocates for tax accountability for wealthy corporations and expanding family tax credits.

• Raise the federal minimum wage and pass the PRO Act
• Expand the Child Tax Credit
• Penalize large corporations that raise prices on essential goods

“Some of Patty’s top priorities include raising the federal minimum wage, passing the PRO Act, expanding the Child Tax Credit, reducing the cost of medicines and prescriptions, building more affordable homes, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and punishing big businesses that raise prices on essential goods.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports tax cuts, cutting government spending

Castillo advocates for tax relief on overtime, tips, and Social Security benefits, combined with deep cuts to government programs. She emphasizes bringing manufacturing jobs back and halting federal debt accumulation.

• Eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits, tips, and overtime work beyond 40 hours
• Cut useless government programs to stop accumulating national debt
• Promote domestic manufacturing to strengthen the local tax base

“NO MORE TAXES on Social Security Benefits”

“NO MORE TAXES on Tips”

Patty Garcia

Supports Medicare for All, reproductive rights

Garcia views healthcare as a human right and supports a universal Medicare for All system. She advocates for protecting reproductive rights, expanding community health clinics, and empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.

• Support Medicare for All to ensure universal coverage
• Protect reproductive healthcare rights
• Allow Medicare to bargain for lower prescription prices from pharmaceutical companies

“Patty backs Medicare for All to ensure healthcare as a human right, provide access to more healthcare coverage, reduce prescription drug prices, and end medical bills that have become a burden on middle-class families.”

Lupe Castillo

Criticizes Medicaid spending, supports Medicare protection

Castillo expresses concern over government financial management of federal health programs. She argues that funds paid into Medicare by workers have been inappropriately diverted into Medicaid programs.

• Protect Medicare funds paid into by American workers
• Criticize government management and diversion of Medicare funds into Medicaid

“That is because they've taken the money out of Medicare and put it into the Medicaid program and given it to anyone and everyone that's been asking for it, most of that money is now gone.”

Patty Garcia

Supports permanent Gaza ceasefire, ending military aid

Garcia calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to all U.S. military assistance to Israel, characterizing Israeli military actions in Gaza as genocide. She advocates for foreign policy rooted in diplomacy rather than warfare.

• Call for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza
• Cessation of all U.S. military assistance and arms shipments to Israel
• Reject the influence of AIPAC and billionaire-funded super PACs

“Her position is for immediate and permanent ceasefire and cessation of all United States military assistance and arms shipments to Israel in its attack on Gaza.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports Israel's defense, NATO cost-sharing

Castillo supports Israel's right to defend itself and suggests sending food and medical supplies to civilians in Palestine. She also demands that NATO partners take on a greater share of financial support for Ukraine.

• Support Israel's right to protect itself
• Send food and medical supplies to Palestinian civilians
• Require NATO partners to share the burden of supporting Ukraine

“NATO needs to do their part in supporting Ukraine. We must not be the sole support for Ukraine.”

“Israel should be allowed to protect themselves they were attacked for no reason, just for the fact they are Israel.”

Patty Garcia

Supports funding public schools, student debt relief

Garcia supports increasing federal funding for public neighborhood schools, raising teacher pay, and expanding early childhood, bilingual, and special education. She opposes privatizing schools and promotes college affordability and debt relief.

• Increase federal funding for public neighborhood schools
• Raise teacher pay and expand early childhood education
• Make college affordable through Pell Grants and student debt relief

“Patty supports increasing federal funding for public schools, expanding early childhood education, protecting special education and bilingual education programs, raising teacher pay, and making college more affordable through expanded Pell Grants and student debt relief.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports school choice

Castillo supports school choice policies for students and parents.

• Allow for school choice options

“ALLOW for School Choice”

Patty Garcia

Supports clean energy adoption, green infrastructure

Garcia frames climate change as an urgent threat and supports transitioning to clean, sustainable energy paired with good-paying union jobs. She advocates for public transportation updates, flood mitigation, and lead pipe replacements.

• Push for clean energy adoption with union job creation
• Invest in public transportation and flood mitigation projects
• Replace water pipes that contain lead

“Patty advocates for the strong push towards the adoption of sustainable energy and advanced infrastructure with good-paying union jobs.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports domestic energy independence

Castillo prioritizes achieving total domestic energy independence, arguing that the United States should rely on internal energy capacity rather than purchasing foreign fuel.

• Re-establish full energy independence
• Stop purchasing fuel from foreign nations

“There is no reason why we should be buying fuel from any country when we have more than enough within our borders.”

Patty Garcia

Supports overturning Citizens United, banning congressional stock trading

Garcia advocates for comprehensive campaign finance reform, including reversing Citizens United and banning stock trading by members of Congress. She also supports safeguarding voting rights and expanding mail-in and early voting.

• Reverse Citizens United and ban congressional stock trading
• Toughen campaign contribution reporting and end dark money
• Safeguard voting rights and expand early and mail-in voting

“Patty is in favor of reversing Citizens United, ending stock-trading by congressional representatives, toughening campaign contribution reporting, safeguarding voting rights, increasing early and mail-in voting opportunities, and combating the influence of dark money in politics.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports congressional term limits, financial transparency

Castillo advocates for congressional term limits to prevent long-serving politicians from getting wealthy in office. She also demands complete financial transparency for taxpayer spending.

• Enact term limits for members of Congress
• Require full financial transparency for government expenditures

“No. The average everyday citizen has more experience, than those that are in office for life. That is why we need term limits.”

Patty Garcia

Opposes Social Security/Medicare cuts or privatization

Garcia opposes any plans to reduce or privatize Social Security and Medicare, advocating for increased coverage, lower prescription costs, and expanded home healthcare budgets.

• Protect Social Security and Medicare against funding cuts or privatization
• Expand Medicare coverage and home healthcare funding

“Patty opposes any plans to reduce funds allocated to Medicare and Social Security and is against privatization of programs which are utilized daily by millions of American seniors.”

Lupe Castillo

Supports eliminating taxes on Social Security

Castillo pledges to eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits to support senior citizens' income.

• Eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits

“NO MORE TAXES on Social Security Benefits”

Lupe Castillo

Supports law enforcement, 2nd Amendment rights

Castillo emphasizes moral and financial support for law enforcement officers, arguing they need resources to ensure safety. She also pledges to protect Second Amendment rights for self-defense.

• Offer full financial and moral support to law enforcement
• Preserve Second Amendment gun rights

“Our law enforcement is in need of our support. They cannot perform their job without funding or verbal and moral support.”

“PRESERVE our 2nd Amendment”