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Friend,
Yesterday, masked ICE officers arrested Brad Lander — the most
senior Jewish leader in New York City government — while he was
volunteering as a legal observer in immigration court.1
Trump’s use of ICE is a danger to immigrants, Jews, our cities, and
our democracy. We need every elected official to show up and fight
back.
But last week, when Republicans passed a resolution that was
supposed to be about condemning the recent attack in Boulder,
they used fighting antisemitism as a smokescreen to stoke fear
of immigrants and thank the ICE agents who are terrorizing our
communities.
With your help, we’re emailing every member of Congress who saw
through the smokescreen and voted no on this anti-democratic
resolution to say THANK YOU.
But for the 75 Democrats and 205 Republicans who voted in favor,
we’re emailing them to say DO BETTER. Because
fighting antisemitism means protecting our freedoms, our democracy,
and our immigrant neighbors.
Did
your Rep see through the smokescreen antisemitism in this harmful
bill? Find out how they voted and email them using our easy contact
tool.
Votes on Rep. Evans’s resolution “Denouncing
the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.”
Last week there was a different resolution denouncing the attack in
Boulder that didn’t sneak in any language supporting attacks
on immigrants in our name as Jews. It even passed by an
overwhelmingly bipartisan 400-0.
But Republicans saw an opening to use the attack in Boulder to push
their dangerous immigration agenda — to continue sending masked men
with guns into our communities to tear our neighbors away from their
workplaces, hospitals, and even children’s
graduations.2
As Senator Padilla said after he was thrown to the floor and
handcuffed by ICE, "If this is how the Department of Homeland
Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine
what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers
throughout the country."
By thanking our representatives when they’re
disciplined enough to see through the smokescreen, we give them the
courage to fight for real solutions to antisemitism.
And by letting the others know we’re unhappy, we
show them the Jewish community will not be used or stepped on to
advance Trump’s fascism.
Click
here to find out how your representative voted, so you can thank them
or tell them they must do better.
Thank you for taking action,
 Eli Williams-Szenes
Director of Advocacy and Political Affairs,
Bend the Arc
Sources:
1. Brad Lander Detained by
Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court, The
City
2. Dallas family's graduation trip turns into immigration
nightmare as parents are detained by ICE, CBS
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