Annie Comes Home: BREAKING: Trump’s immigration orders threaten millions

BREAKING: President Trump Issues Executive Orders on Immigration

The Vera Institute of Justice is ready to defend and advocate for the rights of immigrant communities to promote due process, family unity, and community stability.

Pamela,

For decades, the immigration system has failed to ensure a fair and humane process for people seeking safety, security, and stability in the United States. The executive orders enacted by President Trump yesterday will do nothing to address those failures.

Instead, these cruel and extreme actions will create chaos, waste resources, and cause irreparable harm to millions of people and their families.

Children will discover that their parents are missing at the end of the school day. Storefronts will go dark as immigrant-led businesses will close. The lives of longstanding community members will be upended.

Pamela, whether we were born in this country or came here in search of a better life, we all want safety, security, and stability. We must work to defend due process and humanity in our immigration system wherever possible with sensible, evidence-based policies.

Already, millions of people facing deportation are forced to defend themselves in court alone because there is no right to an appointed lawyer in the immigration system. That's why Vera founded the Safety & Fairness for Everyone (SAFE) Network at the start of the first Trump administration.

Since 2017, SAFE has worked to establish immigration legal defense programs at the state and local levels. Today, the SAFE Network is operating in 31 jurisdictions across the country.

Together with our partners, we are ready to defend and advocate for the rights of immigrant communities to promote due process, family unity, and community stability. You can help to continue and expand this work by making a gift to Vera today.

Onward,
Vera Institute of Justice