CHC BOLD PAC to Guardrails Alliance: Latino Families Need AI Safeguards, and Jimmy Gomez Has Been Fighting for Them

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 13, 2026
Contact: valeria@chcboldpac.com
CHC BOLD PAC to Guardrails Alliance: Latino Families Need AI Safeguards, and Jimmy Gomez Has Been Fighting for Them
Every dollar aimed at a proven champion for AI regulation is a dollar not spent defeating Republicans who want AI completely unregulated
WASHINGTON, DC – CHC BOLD PAC, the campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, today called on Guardrails Alliance – a PAC aimed at advancing candidates who will advocate for AI regulation – to reassess its strategy after the group spent over $400,000 against Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), a proven champion for AI regulation. For Latino and immigrant communities, AI regulation decides whether agencies like ICE can use facial recognition and surveillance tools to track people, misidentify them, and target them. Rep. Gomez is a believer in both the opportunity of AI and the need for regulations - that’s why he has spent years fighting to put limits on those tools. Guardrails Alliance says it supports AI regulation, yet it is spending against him while Republicans block the safeguards it claims to want.
“For Latino families, the fight over AI regulation is already personal. These are the same tools that can be turned on immigrant communities, and Jimmy Gomez has been fighting to rein them in since 2018,” said
CHC BOLD PAC Chair Linda T. Sánchez. “He took on Amazon over facial recognition, pushed to find out whether ICE could keep using it, and helped write protections to keep it out of immigration enforcement. If Guardrails Alliance is serious about regulating AI, it needs to reassess its strategy. Democrats are on the cusp of taking back the House, and every dollar spent against Jimmy is a dollar not spent beating the Republicans who stand in the way of meaningful AI guardrails.”
Rep. Gomez’s fight to keep AI surveillance away from ICE and our communities:
- Challenged Amazon on racial bias and law enforcement misuse (2018). With Sen. Ed Markey, Gomez led a congressional inquiry into Amazon’s facial recognition technology. It pressed the company on racial bias, accuracy, privacy, and misuse by law enforcement.
- Gomez called for a federal moratorium instead of voluntary company pledges. He also asked whether Amazon’s pause applied to DHS, ICE, and existing police contracts.
- Helped introduce the Facial Recognition Act of 2022. The bill would ban facial recognition for immigration enforcement and for tracking lawful protests, require warrants and independent audits, and let people harmed by unlawful use sue.
- Gomez’s Ban Military Drones Spying on Civilians Actwould bar federal agencies from using certain military drones to monitor people at protests.
- Cosponsors the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The bill would stop companies from using personal surveillance data to set individualized prices and wages through algorithms, a practice that hits working families hardest.
- Gomez sued to stop ICE from hiding conditions inside detention centers, and won. After the court ruled, he carried out oversight at an ICE facility in Los Angeles.
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CHC BOLD PAC, the campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, was founded in 2001 to increase Latino representation in Congress. Since its founding, CHC BOLD PAC has more than doubled the size of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.












