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Each election on this page includes at least one congressional candidate who is making overall immigration reduction and improved immigration enforcement a major issue. Please e-mail us if you know of any other true reform candidates or have additional information on the races included here.

NAMES IN GREEN are candidates who have said they want to be known as running to reform immigration policies and who have provided survey responses backing up their claim.

NAMES IN PURPLE are candidates who completed the immigration survey, but did not qualify as immigration reform candidates.

NAMES WITH OUR SYMBOL preceding them indicate candidates whose survey responses best meet the criteria for being a "True Immigration-Reform Candidate" in races in which more than one candidate's name appears in green.

ABI NEVER ENDORSES CANDIDATES. Our highlighting of some candidates is to help citizens know who is most likely to work for reducing overall immigration so citizens can factor that information into their voting decisions. But we realize that voters mark their ballot based on many issues and judgments about the character and leadership of a candidate. We don’t presume to suggest the best candidate for your overall needs and interests. And, Americans for Better Immigration is strictly non-partisan, with no preference for one party or another.


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*** ALL PRIMARIES HAVE CONCLUDED ***
ALABAMA
Primary: June 6, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Mike Rogers (R), Mark Edwin Layfield (I)
ARIZONA
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Ed Pastor (D), Don Karg (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: Randy Graf (R), Gabrielle Giffords (D)
ARKANSAS
Primary: May 23, 2006
Primary Run-off: June 13, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Marion Berry (D), Mickey 'Stubby' Stumbaugh (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Vic Snyder (D), Andy Mayberry (R)
CALIFORNIA
Primary: June 6 , 2006
RACE: Governor
CANDIDATES: Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), Phil Angelides (D)
Edward C. Noonan (AIP), Art Olivier (L), Janice Jordan (PF),
Peter M. Camejo (G)
RACE: U.S. Senate
Candidates: Dianne Feinstein (D), Dick Mountjoy (R),
Don J Grundmann (AIP), Todd Chretien (G), Tian Harter (G),
Kent P. Mesplay (G), Michael S. Metti (L), Marsha Feinland (P&F)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: Nancy Pelosi (D), Mike DeNunzio (R),
Kristine Keefer (G), Philip Z. Berg (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 18th District
CANDIDATES: Dennis Cardoza (D), John Kanno (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 24th District
CANDIDATES: Elton Gallegly (R), Jill Marie Martinez (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 26th District
CANDIDATES: David Dreier (R), Cynthia Rodriguez Matthews (D),
Elliott Graham (AI), Ted Brown (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 29th District
CANDIDATES: Adam Schiff (D), William J. Bodell (R),
William M. Paparian (G), Jim Keller (L), Lynda L. Llamas (P&F)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 38th District
CANDIDATES: Grace Napolitano (D), Sidney W. Street (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 39th District
CANDIDATES: Linda Sanchez (D), James L. Andion (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 43rd District
CANDIDATES: Joe Baca (D), Scott Lloyd Folkens (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 47th District
CANDIDATES: Tan D. Nguyen (R), Loretta Sanchez (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 50th District
 Brian Bilbray (R), Francine Busby (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 53rd District
CANDIDATES: Susan A. Davis (D), John Woodrum (R)
COLORADO
Primary: August 8, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Mark Udall (D), Rich Mancuso (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District
CANDIDATES: Tom Tancredo (R), Bill Winter (D)
CONNECTICUT
Primary: August 8, 2006
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Joe Lieberman (I), Ralph Ferrucci (I)
Alan Schlesinger (R), Ned Lamont (D), Timothy A. Knibbs (C)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Chris Shays (R), Diane Farrell (D), Phil Maymin (L)
DELAWARE
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Thomas Carper (D), Jan Ting (R)
FLORIDA
Primary: September 5, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Jeff Miller (R), Joe Roberts (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District
CANDIDATES: Eddie Adams (R), Kathy Castor (D)
GEORGIA
Primary: July 18, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D), Brad Hughes (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Hank Johnson (D), Catherine Davis (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 12th District
CANDIDATES: John Barrow (D), Max Burns (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 13th District
CANDIDATES: David Scott (D), Deborah Travis Honeycutt (R)
HAWAII
Primary: September 23, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Neil Abercrombie (D), Richard Noah Hough (R)
IDAHO
Primary: May 23, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Bill Sali (R), Larry Grant (D
ILLINOIS
Primary: March 21, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Jesse Jackson Jr. (D), Robert Belin (R),
Anthony W. Williams (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: Danny K. Davis (D), Charles Hutchinson (R)
INDIANA
Primary: May 2, 2006
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Richard Lugar (R), Rick Hale (I), Steve Osborn (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Pete Visclosky (D), Mark J. Leyva (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: John Hostettler (R), Brad Ellsworth (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 9th District
CANDIDATES: Baron Hill (D), Mike Sodrel (R),
Eric Schansberg (L), Don Mantooth (I)
IOWA
Primary: June 6, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Bruce Braley (D), Rick Dickinson (D), Bill Dix (R),
Bill Gluba (D), Brian Kennedy (R), Mike Whalen (R)
KANSAS
Primary: August 1, 2006
RACE: Governor
CANDIDATES: Kathleen Sebelius (D), Jim Barnett (R),
Richard Ranzau (Reform), Carl Kramer (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Jerry Moran (R), Timothy A. Huelskamp (R), John G. Doll (D)
KENTUCKY
Primary: May 16, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Anne Northup (R), John Yarmuth (D),
W. Ed Parker (C)
LOUISIANA
Primary: NONE
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Charlie Melancon (D), Craig Romero (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Jim McCrery (R), Chester T. Kelley (R)
MARYLAND
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: John White (R), John Sarbanes (D)
MASSACHUSETTS
Primary: September 19, 2006
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Ted Kennedy (D), Kenneth Chase (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District
CANDIDATES: John F. Tierney (D), Rick Barton (R)
MICHIGAN
Primary: August 8, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 10th District
CANDIDATES: Candice S. Miller (R), Robert Denison (D),
Mark Byrne (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 14th District
CANDIDATES: John Conyers Jr. (D), Chad Miles (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 15th District
CANDIDATES: John D. Dingell (D), Vincent Vernuccio (R)
MINNESOTA
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: Collin C. Peterson (D), Mike Barrett (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: James L. Oberstar (D), Rod Grams (R)
NEBRASKA
Primary: May 9, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Adrian Smith (R), Scott Kleeb (D)
NEVADA
Primary: August 15, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Shelley Berkley (D), Kenneth Wegner (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Dean Heller (R), Jill Derby (D)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Jeb Bradley (R), Gary B. Dodds (D)
Peter Michael Sullivan (D), Dan Belforti (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Charles Bass (R), Howard L. Wilson (L)
Bret Michael Clemons (D), Paul Hodes (D)
NEW JERSEY
Primary: June 6, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6nd District
CANDIDATES: Frank Pallone, Jr. (D), Leigh Ann Bellew (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District
CANDIDATES: Rodney Frelinghuysen (R), Tom Wyka (D),
John Mele (C), Richard Roth (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 12th District
CANDIDATES: Rush Holt (D), Joseph S. Sinagra (R)
NEW YORK
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Steve Israel (D), Joshua Clinton Price (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 18th District
CANDIDATES: Nita M. Lowey (D), Richard Hoffman (R)
NORTH CAROLINA
Primary: May 2, 2006
Primary Run-off: May 30, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Bob Etheridge (D), Dan Mansell (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: David Price (D), Steve Acuff (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: Mike McIntyre (D), Shirley Davis (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 12th District
CANDIDATES: Melvin L. Watt (D), Ada M. Fisher (R)
NORTH DAKOTA
Primary: June 13, 2006
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Kent Conrad (D), Dwight Grotberg (R)
OHIO
Primary: May 2, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District
CANDIDATES: Charlie Wilson (D), Chuck Blasdel (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 10th District
CANDIDATES: Dennis J. Kucinich (D), Michael Dovilla (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District
CANDIDATES: Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D), Lindsey String (R)
OREGON
Primary: May 16, 2006
RACE: Governor
CANDIDATES: Ted Kulongoski (D), Ron Saxton (R),
Mary Starrett (C)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Peter DeFazio (D), Jim Feldkamp (R)
PENNSYLVANIA
Primary: May 16, 2006
RACE: Governor
CANDIDATES: Ed Rendell (D), Lynn Swann (R), Hagan Smith (C)
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Rick Santorum (R), Bob Casey, Jr. (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Chaka Fattah (D), Michael Gessner (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 10th District
CANDIDATES: Don Sherwood (R), Chris Carney (D),
Veronica A. Hannevia (C)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District
CANDIDATES: Paul Kanjorski (D), Joseph F. Leonardi (R)
RHODE ISLAND
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Patrick J. Kennedy (D), Edmund Leather (R),
Jonathan Scott (R)
SOUTH CAROLINA
Primary: June 13, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Gresham Barrett (R), Lee Ballenger (D)
TENNESSEE
Primary: August 3, 2006
RACE: Governor
CANDIDATES: Phil Bredesen (D), Jim Bryson (R),
Carl Twofeathers Whitaker (I)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: David Davis (R), Rick Trent (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Zach Wamp (R), Brent Benedict (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Lincoln Davis (D), Ken Martin (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District
CANDIDATES: Jim Cooper (D), Thomas F. Kovach (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District
CANDIDATES: Bart Gordon (D), Robert L. Garrison (I)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: Marsha Blackburn (R), Bill Morrison (D)
TEXAS
Primary: March 7, 2006
Primary Run-off: April 11, 2006
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Kay Bailey Hutchison (R), Barbara Ann Radnofsky (D),
Arthur Loux (I)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Louis B. Gohmert Jr (R), Roger L. Owen (D),
Frank Camp (I), Donald Perkison (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 13th District
CANDIDATES: Mac Thornberry (R), Roger J. Waun (D),
Jim Thompson (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 18th District
CANDIDATES: Sheila Jackson Lee (D), Ahmad R. Hassan (R),
Patrick Warren (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 21st District
CANDIDATES: Lamar Smith (R), John Courage (D),
Mark Joseph Rossano (I), James Arthur Strohm (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 24th District
CANDIDATES: Kenny Ewell Marchant (R), Gary R. Page (D),
Mark Frohman (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 25th District
CANDIDATES: Lloyd Doggett (D), Grant Rostig (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 26th District
CANDIDATES: Michael Burgess (R), Tim Barnwell (D),
Rich Haas (L)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 29th District
CANDIDATES: Gene Green (D), Leslie Eric Story (R),
Clifford Lee Messina (L)
UTAH
Primary: June 27, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Chris Cannon (R), Christian Burridge (D),
Jim Noorlander (C)
VIRGINIA
Primary: June 13, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Jo Ann Davis (R), William A. Lee (R),
Shawn Michael O'Donnell (D)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: Jim Moran (D), Kenny Wilson (I),
James T. Hurysz (I), Thomas O'Donoghue (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 9th District
CANDIDATES: Rick Boucher (D), Charles W. Carrico (R)
WASHINGTON
Primary: September 19, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Brian Baird (D), Michael Henry Messmore (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: Jim McDermott (D), Steve Beren (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 9th District
CANDIDATES: Adam Smith (D), Steven Charles Cofchin (R)
WEST VIRGINIA
Primary: May 9, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Alan B. Mollohan (D), Chris Wakim (R)
WISCONSIN
Primary: September 12, 2006
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Ron Kind (D), Paul Nelson (R)
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: David R. Obey (D), Nick Reid (R)


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