TAKE ACTION: Send a letter to support asylum seekers and oppose harmful immigration policies!
Dear MoveOn member,
The latest bipartisan supplemental proposal on immigration is disgraceful and an unserious attempt at making substantial change to immigration policies in the United States. Any reformation or fixes to our current immigration system should address the root causes, not force more draconian restrictions and funding for punitive enforcement, including private prisons and the expansion of mandatory detention.
This proposal would severely diminish asylum rights, dump billions of dollars into an already robust deportation machine, and deny due process to people fleeing harm. This proposal is meant to divide our communities and make it seem like we have to sacrifice the dignity of others for self-preservation, and that's far from the truth. All of us need to come together to show opposition to this proposal: Send a letter to your senator NOW.
While this bill is bipartisan, many of the proposals are from Trump's playbook, and Republicans have been clear: They have been rejecting any and all meaningful reforms when it comes to immigration policy. The problem is not Democrats' unwillingness to get things done. The proposal on the table has been tried and proven ineffective multiple times over. The statistics show it best: Enforcement and aggression lead only to more chaos, and this proposal will do nothing to increase efficiency or the orderly processing of asylum claims. The immigration provisions of the supplemental bill should be condemned.
Send a letter and ask your senator to vote NO on this cruel proposal.
Congress has the power to update existing law and reform the immigration system in a meaningful way. Here's what Congress could do instead:
- Create a law with a tangible pathway to citizenship for the nearly 8 million immigrants who are a vital part of our communities.
- Recognize DACA recipients who need a solution to their temporary status.
- Increase funding and personnel capacity for immigration courts and legal counsel.
- Provide funding and support for receiving communities impacted by our overwhelmed asylum system.
If Congress wants to come together to think of thoughtful and intentional strategies for supporting migrants and building our asylum system, it should. This bill is not that, and until the right proposal is on the table, Democrats should resist the desire to satiate Republican desires to continue to tear apart every democratic system we have in this country. Send a letter to your senator to encourage them to vote NO on this policy.
Thanks for all you do.
—Nakia, Ankur, Kelly, Madeleine, and the rest of the team
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