Community trust is a law enforcement priority!
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B Stands for BadgesGood afternoon,

Last month the National Immigration Forum launched a set of 2024
Immigration Principles

that reflect our country's deeply rooted values. Americans want
leaders who will prioritize working together on finding solutions and
passing reforms, not leaders who spread divisive rhetoric. These
principles should guide all of us working toward creating an orderly,
secure, and humane immigration system in the face of ongoing global and
domestic challenges that require an update to America's 38-year-old
immigration policies.

Our leaders in law enforcement, national security, faith, and business
sectors have long been working in their own communities to exemplify
these values of trust, human dignity, security, and welcome. For
example, Chief Ramon Batista of the Santa Monica, California
, Police Department and
co-chair of the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force

****(LEITF) emphasizes the need to preserve federal leadership in
setting immigration policy.??

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Listen to Chief of Police and LEITF co-Chair Ramon Batista (Santa
Monica, CA) about the need to prioritize trust-building to ensure public
safety. (Source: National Immigration Forum)

Chief Batista believes that all community members including immigrants
should feel safe and that building trust is a vital component of public
safety and national security. He argues that immigrants must feel secure
that cooperating with local law enforcement would not lead to their
deportation or that of their loved ones. Crime victims and witnesses
should feel safe to come forward. Chief Batista also highlights that to
achieve safety at the border, the immigration system needs to protect
all of us, respect the law, and ensure human dignity.

Congress should lead the way to fix the current broken immigration
system while local law enforcement focusses their limited resources on
responding to community needs. Reforms to create pathways for long term
undocumented residents to get right with the law will benefit all of us,
Chief Batista advocates. Because when immigrants feel safe in their
communities, everyone is safer. In this video he concludes that "

**now more than ever, Republicans and Democrats in Congress must work
together to pass immigration reforms that improve security, promote
order, and foster community trust**."

As Americans and community leaders, let's continue to fight for our
values of welcome. Join us in showing your support

**for a conversation around immigration that unifies rather than
divides, and for Congress to pass the solutions Americans need and
want.**

Stay hopeful and committed,
Oula Alrifai

**Oula Alrifai**
Assistant Vice President of Field and Constituencies
National Immigration Forum??

**NEWS CLIPS TO NOTE:**

**WESTERN IOWA TODAY:**Iowa Police Chiefs: New Immigration Law Threatens
Trust Between Community and Law Enforcement

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**NN:**??A controversial Texas law has become a blueprint for other
states. Immigrant communities are worried

**LA TIMES:**Biden administration gives California $45 million to help
recently arrived migrants

**SOJOURNERS:**Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform. Here's Why They
Think They'll Get It

**THE COURIER:**Capitol Notebook: Bill to arm school staff headed to
Iowa Gov. Reynolds

**WASHINGTON POST**: Homeland Security investigative agency seeks
rebrand, without ICE.

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