Demand Congress Invest in Communities, Not the Deportation Force!
Democrats in Congress
BREAKING: Congress released the text for their 2023 funding bill that excludes a path to citizenship for immigrant youth and farm workers.
The bill includes over $15.5 billion in funding for Customs and Border Protections (CBP), including funding for 300 additional CBP officers. Democrats in particular will be closing out their trifecta by failing immigrant youth. While Congress will go home to be with their families for the holidays, millions of us continue to live with uncertainty and the threat of deportation.
Congress must protect immigrants by drastically cutting the budget for ICE & CBP. These are funds that could and should have been spent in our communities to fund education, healthcare, equitable housing access, voting rights, and a path to citizenship!
Instead of delivering a pathway to citizenship, Congress continues to fail our communities and put Black, brown and immigrant lives on the line. More funding for detention, enforcement, and border militarization will only result in our communities being abused, beaten, and even killed.
Sign the petition to demand Congress invest in our communities & NOT the deportation force!
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Democrats in Congress
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[Your Name]
This budget may just be numbers on a page to you, but these decisions you make behind closed doors affect the real lives of millions of Black & brown immigrants every day in this country.
The funds that both House & Senate Democrats have approved will increase the capacity that ICE & CBP have to terrorize & criminalize our immigrant communities and continue to separate families.
You have the power to prioritize the safety and wellbeing of our communities by investing in healthcare, education, housing, and a pathway to citizenship. But you’ve chosen instead to prioritize the detention, deportation, and surveillance of our communities.
As youfinalize the federal budget for 2023, I demand that you prioritize investment in our communities and not the deportation force!