Last week, the Senate passed S.5 (Laken Riley), which exploits an awful tragedy to drastically expand mandatory detention and facilitate mass deportations by:

1. Further weaponizing the criminal punishment system to require mandatory detention of people arrested, charged or convicted of theft related crimes. It will lead to many more people being detained without access to bond and will have a disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities.
2. Giving power to anti-immigrant state attorneys general to sue the federal government on immigration related matters, for example to force the federal government to target, detain and deport specific people, overturn humanitarian parole decisions, and stop issuing visas to people from certain countries.

The a previous version of the bill passed the House with the support of 48 Democrats and last week it passed the Senate the support of Senate Democrats. The bill now moves back to the House for a final vote tomorrow, January 22. Act now - Join DWN in demanding that Congress reject S.5 (Laken Riley) TODAY. Send your Members of Congress a NO recommendation by sending a letter now