John,
When I was Controller, undocumented immigrants' labor was worth more than $180 billion a year. And during my term, our state passed legislation that has kept our state’s law enforcement from being commandeered by an authoritarian leader for illegal raids.
Now, we must do more, and ensure the immigrants who make California’s economy thrive are protected from the whims of Trump’s administration. We must stand up to the terror ICE can wreak on our immigrant communities, and ban our state’s taxpayer-funded prisons from having coordination with ICE.
We must protect the workers who keep our state running. Sign on to demand that we make California’s immigrant protections the strongest in the nation.
Here’s a fact: Nearly half of the nation's 2 million-plus farm workers lack legal status. So do nearly half of the dairy and meatpacking workers.
Mass deportations aren’t going to help anybody, and will ultimately raise costs when too many of us are already struggling. Local lawmakers have made clear that some of our smaller towns would collapse if those workers were deported.
Sign now to demand that our lawmakers keep Donald Trump and ICE out of our communities!
Together,
Betty
