ACLU
Hi Tony –
Last week President Trump tweeted plans to unleash a wave of ICE raids across the country to conduct mass arrests and deportations. Whether or not the raids occur, he's playing games with millions of people's lives and stoking fear and uncertainty in our communities.
ICE has already been out of control under his administration, and one reason why is because of controversial 287(g) agreements that give local law enforcement the authority to racially profile, detain, and deport members of their communities. Your state or local police could be doing ICE's dirty work as we speak.
287(g) agreements expire on June 30 and have to be affirmatively renewed. That means we have a chance to squash them before the month's end. Tell Congress to eliminate 287(g) agreements in one fell swoop by passing the PROTECT Immigration Act right now.
Under 287(g) agreements, police get federal ICE authority that can lead them to racially profile people who look or sound "like immigrants" and interrogate them about their immigration status. They also use ICE's database to deport people who come into contact with local police for minor non-immigration offenses. And they can hold people for up to 48 hours on ICE detainers, even if all charges have been dropped.
To date, local police have helped deport over 12,000 immigrants in the Trump years alone – but we can fight back. If passed, the PROTECT Immigration Act would eliminate 287(g) agreements altogether.
Sign the petition demanding that Congress pass the PROTECT Immigration Act and restore trust and inclusivity in our communities.
It's not easy going up against Trump's deportation machine. But if enough of us speak out, then we can put an end to this administration's anti-immigrant agenda, one abusive policy at a time.
Thanks for fighting back,
Lorella Praeli
ACLU Deputy National Political Director
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We need for our Statue of Liberty to stand for what we are all about, not a wall.
And we need to make our immigrants legal, like President Reagan did, so that our immigrants can legally work, and join labor unions, and so that they can call the police in the case of an emergency, etc, etc, etc.
We need to make our immigrants legal, and we need to have a GOOD NEIGHBOR policy for our good Christian neighbors here in the Western Hemisphere, so that they can legally live, work, and go to school in the USA, and we need to have an easy path to citizenship for them.
Salute,
Tony V.
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