| Friend, Immediately after Trump was inaugurated, his lawless thugs began raiding schools in Los Angeles, looking for children to intimidate and treat like criminals.(1) More are sure to follow. A critical piece of his cruel mass deportation plan, these warrantless searches are almost certainly illegal.(2) That’s why school districts around the state are fighting back, refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “You can’t learn when you’re scared,” one educator in San Jose said.(3) But for Trump and his minions in the MAGA Congress, the cruelty is the point. That’s why they’re trying to pass HR 32, which would withhold vital funds from schools, cities, and entire states like California that are resisting mass deportation. Will you sign our petition to Congress to reject mass deportation and reject HR 32?
Trump’s plan for mass deportations would devastate California -- upending over a million lives and costing the state hundreds of billions of dollars.(4) That’s part of why during Trump 1.0, the state adopted a law against cooperating with the feds on its heartless attempts to intimidate and deport immigrants.(5) But HR 32 would punish California, school districts, and any other entity resisting Trump’s lawless ICE agents, forcing them to participate in mass deportation actions or potentially risk losing money for programs such as:
Cutting funding for these programs would take away critical care for tens of thousands of people, disproportionately impacting low-income and marginalized Black and Brown communities. Will you speak out against mass deportation and tell Congress to vote down HR 32? Thank you for being with us. –Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the Courage team)
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