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Dear Friend, 

We are in the final days and hours of the Maryland legislative session
and we are running out of time to pass protections for our immigrant
community. 

 

PLEASE call Senator Ferguson (410-841-3600) and Senator Will Smith
(410-841-3634) and demand they bring HB 1222 to a vote to end the 287g
program and prohibit our local law enforcement from serving as ICE
agents. 

 

We have all heard of the unconstitutional actions ICE has committed in
Maryland, several in the last two weeks alone. [ [link removed] ]Kilmar Abrego Garcia
was arrested and deported without any due process or criminal charges.
He was forcefully and illegally removed from his spouse and special
needs child and sent to a Salvadorian concentration camp. He has no
criminal record. The federal government has admitted that he shouldn’t
have been deported.  And just two days ago, a 52 year old Maryland
mother with no criminal record had her car window smashed in by ICE, and
forced out of her car while her child pleaded for her mother. This
happened in Carroll County, the latest sheriff’s department to join ICE
in a 287g partnership that forces local law enforcement to serve as ICE
agents instead of focusing on the real public safety needs of our
communities.

 

Marylanders deserve to be protected from the lawless approach that ICE
is increasing daily. Marylanders deserve to have their elected officials
pass laws that would end these violent partnerships between local law
enforcement and ICE.

 

Thankfully, HB 1222 would do just that. This bill already passed the
House. Senate President Bill Ferguson, and Senator Will Smith, must
bring this bill for a vote and take a stand against a lawless federal
administration that has already punished Marylanders. They’ve denied
nearly half a billion in public school reimbursements, they’ve fired
thousands of Marylanders for diligently doing their federal work, they
have denied federal building construction. When any Marylander’s due
process rights are violated all of us are threatened. When any one
person is unlawfully deported, we all risk deportation. It’s time to
stand up to the bullies!

PLEASE call Senator Ferguson at 410-841-3600 and Senator Will Smith at
410-841-3634 and ask if you can count on them to support HB 1222 without
ANY watering down of the bill or weakening protections for immigrants!

YOUR VOICE MAKES A DIFFERENCE!

In solidarity,

The Advance Maryland Team

 

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