rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/banks-arent-immigration-checkpoints?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-banks-arent-immigration-checkpoints' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Americans for Financial Reform https://actionnetwork.org/groups/afr-advocacy-fund-c4 https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/groups/default_facebook_images/000/014/858/original/AFR_Action_Network_Default_(1).png?1738796429 Donald Trump is trying to turn America’s banks into immigration checkpoints and their employees into de facto ICE agents. The Trump administration is directing federal financial regulators to push banks toward greater scrutiny of immigrant customers. It wants banks to treat the lawful use of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers as a potential risk factor and consider whether deportation or lost work authorization could affect an immigrant customer’s ability to repay a loan. ITINs are issued by the federal government so people without Social Security numbers can pay taxes and comply with federal law. Using an ITIN should never become grounds for suspicion, additional surveillance, denied credit, or the loss of a bank account. This discriminatory scheme could drive millions of people out of regulated banks and toward check cashers, payday lenders, and other expensive financial companies with weaker consumer protections. It would undermine trust in the financial system and place frontline bank employees in the position of interrogating customers about their citizenship or immigration status. Opposition crosses ideological lines. Even the libertarian Cato Institute has also warned against turning banks into “citizenship police” and using the financial system to expand immigration surveillance. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and U.S. Bank must refuse to participate. Their CEOs should publicly commit to protecting immigrant customers, respecting lawful forms of identification, and keeping immigration enforcement out of their banks. Click “START WRITING” to tell the CEOs of America’s five biggest banks to protect immigrant customers, keep bank workers out of immigration enforcement, and reject Trump’s immigrant debanking scheme now. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/banks-arent-immigration-checkpoints