Friend,

Since Trump’s inauguration, his Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency
-- or ICE -- has wasted no time, arresting some 8,200 people across the
country.(1)

In California, as across the country, Trump’s border goons have detained
mostly law-abiding residents, like Giovanni Duran, who came to the United
States at age two. Now 42, he was snatched away front of his 7-year-old
son, set to be deported to a country he has never known.(2)

Multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have even been
granted access to information in a database on unaccompanied children who
crossed the border into the United States.(3)

Let’s be clear: what Trump’s ICE agents are doing is, in many cases,
illegal. And though Trump wishes it weren’t so, all U.S. residents have
constitutional rights.

[ [link removed] ]That’s why we’ve partnered with ACLU and others to create these guides
to help people exercise their rights when ICE comes to their doorstep.
Will you share far and wide?

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Border Patrol can’t enter private homes without warrants signed by judges.
Full Stop. In California, they can’t stop someone in their car just
because of their perceived ethnicity. And, regardless of your status, if
you are detained, you have the right to remain silent.

These are the messages we desperately need to distribute far and wide as
cruel and unconstitutional ICE searches continue, and as the agency
reportedly plans a “large-scale” raid in Los Angeles by the end of the
month.(4)

Communities across California are bravely standing up against Trump’s mass
deportation plans and ICE raids, including educators.(4)

Now, we need to make sure individual families everywhere know their rights
when ICE breaches community protections.

We have made it very simple to share this critical information -- just
click the image or the link and you can share the text and image to any
social media platform you post on. Or just forward this email!

[ [link removed] ]As ICE raids persist across California, will you share these guides far
and wide to make sure people know their rights?

Thank you for being with us.

–Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the
Courage team)

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Courage California (formerly Courage Campaign) makes sure our democracy works for ALL of us by fighting corruption in California politics. We believe the solution lies in exposing and solving systemic problems through strategic organizing, enhancing coordination between progressive organizations, and mobilizing civic engagement from our communities, particularly voters of color, young voters, and self-identified progressives.

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