Sign the petition: Protect the undocumented during this crisis
U.S. Congress
Sign MoveOn’s petition on behalf of millions of children who are U.S. citizens but have been denied the $500 coronavirus economic relief payments because one or both of their parents are undocumented immigrants.
Donald Trump’s disdain toward immigrants is the cause of many of the heartless policies of his administration. From putting up border walls to implementing a Muslim Ban to keeping children in heartbreaking detention camps, the breadth of the administration’s cruelty aimed at immigrants is astounding.
And right now, during the COVID–19 pandemic, a global crisis that’s putting people’s lives and livelihoods at incredible risk, the Trump administration is denying millions of American children the $500 payment that they deserve as part of the $2 trillion stimulus package passed in March. Why? Because these children, who are U.S. citizens, have an undocumented parent.
A lawsuit filed recently on the children’s behalf by the Georgetown University Law Center explains that denying them this payment is a violation of the Constitution. An expert on poverty and income tax law describes this exclusion as “a slap in the face to millions of hard-working taxpaying immigrants who comply with our tax laws, file tax returns and pay billions of dollars in taxes.”
Not only is the Trump administration’s decision to exclude the children unconstitutional, it’s unethical: Their parents are the ones who are working in high-risk, frontline, essential jobs, in health and child care, meatpacking and food production, and custodial work. Our nation’s food supply, by the government’s own estimate, depends on them: half of all field hands in the country, more than 1 million workers, are undocumented immigrants. An immigrant advocate says it perfectly: “It is an absolute outrage that we are relying on immigrant families to care for our loved ones and provide our essential supplies and yet denying their children the support they are entitled to as U.S. citizens.”
That is why we are asking you to sign MoveOn’s petition demanding that the federal government give the children who have undocumented parents the stimulus payment that they are entitled to as U.S. citizens.
Donald Trump’s disdain toward immigrants is the cause of many of the heartless policies of his administration. From putting up border walls to implementing a Muslim Ban to keeping children in heartbreaking detention camps, the breadth of the administration’s cruelty aimed at immigrants is astounding.
And right now, during the COVID–19 pandemic, a global crisis that’s putting people’s lives and livelihoods at incredible risk, the Trump administration is denying millions of American children the $500 payment that they deserve as part of the $2 trillion stimulus package passed in March. Why? Because these children, who are U.S. citizens, have an undocumented parent.
A lawsuit filed recently on the children’s behalf by the Georgetown University Law Center explains that denying them this payment is a violation of the Constitution. An expert on poverty and income tax law describes this exclusion as “a slap in the face to millions of hard-working taxpaying immigrants who comply with our tax laws, file tax returns and pay billions of dollars in taxes.”
Not only is the Trump administration’s decision to exclude the children unconstitutional, it’s unethical: Their parents are the ones who are working in high-risk, frontline, essential jobs, in health and child care, meatpacking and food production, and custodial work. Our nation’s food supply, by the government’s own estimate, depends on them: half of all field hands in the country, more than 1 million workers, are undocumented immigrants. An immigrant advocate says it perfectly: “It is an absolute outrage that we are relying on immigrant families to care for our loved ones and provide our essential supplies and yet denying their children the support they are entitled to as U.S. citizens.”
That is why we are asking you to sign MoveOn’s petition demanding that the federal government give the children who have undocumented parents the stimulus payment that they are entitled to as U.S. citizens.
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Millions of children who are U.S. citizens with undocumented parents should receive the coronavirus relief that is being unjustly denied to them.