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Arizona Democrat prompts presidential run rumors after revealing new border plan, visiting PA
May 21, 2025
First–term Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego from Arizona emerged as a potential 2028 presidential contender this month after unveiling his own border plan and traveling for an appearance in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
The newcomer has not formally announced plans to run for president, with the next election still over three years away, but he has begun making moves that presidential candidates normally make. One local news outfit, YourBasin.com based in Texas, says that an exploratory committee has been created.
Gallego, who is considered by many a moderate Democrat, only recently stepped into the national spotlight. The border-state liberal defeated conservative firebrand Kari Lake for the Senate last year and has since shown a willingness to work across the aisle to pass legislation.
The 45-year-old senator, an Illinois native, served for 10 years in the House of Representatives before being elected to the upper chamber after which he became the highest ranking Latino Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. He is also a Marine Corps veteran who was deployed to the Iraq War, according to his Senate page.
Gallego reveals a moderate border plan
The senator unveiled his border security plan last week, which includes calls to increase the number of Border Patrol agents, reform the immigration and asylum system, and create pathways to citizenship for migrant children whose parents brought them into the country illegally.
Gallego’s reform plan also seeks to end the abuse in the immigration system, increase the speed that asylum requests are processed and streamline the system in general.
“This is a very moderate approach,” Gallego told Vanity Fair. “We’re not trying to make 12 million people US citizens. We’re saying, ‘hey, we understand where the American public is … The American public doesn’t want families separated. The American public doesn’t want chaos in our communities. They don’t want children to be deported. We can still fight for that, while also saying, You know what? I’m for a secure border.”
The senator said that the difference in his approach to the border compared to President Donald Trump’s is that he wants to hire more Border Patrol agents and immigration judges instead of sending military troops to the border.
“I’m saying, send the Marines back and hire more Border Patrol, hire more trained officials, hire more asylum judges to keep this going,” Gallego said. “Because he hasn’t solved the problem. He’s going to eventually run out of money. He hasn’t solved the problem if you’re still going to have 8 million to 12 million people hiding in the shadows.”
The Arizonan urged his fellow lawmakers to strengthen their message on the border, because it was one of the reasons that the Democratic Party as a whole lost in 2024. Republicans now oversee the executive and legislative branches of the government after flipping the White House and Senate red last year.
“Denying reality does not change reality,” he said. “The Democrats ran a campaign that they wanted to run that would make them feel good, but not necessarily win … Instead of showing that they are sincere about closing the border, they were afraid to piss off this imaginary voter base of Latinos that is for open borders, which doesn’t f***ing exist.”
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