John,

Violent ICE raids are terrorizing our communities. Masked agents have chased families of farmworkers, who’ve described feeling “hunted.” One farmworker recently died during a raid. Immigrants’ lives are not disposable!

In violation of the Constitution, federal agents are racially profiling people at worksites, courthouses, and schools. They’re also unconstitutionally kidnapping people without warrants or probable cause.

We need to fight back at all levels to protect our neighbors and protect our shared constitutional right to due process—which applies regardless of immigration status.

Please sign on to demand city, state, and federal officials defend our neighbors from lawless, masked immigration agents!

In my state of Michigan, a woman who reported her assault to the police was then sent to ICE detention and she’s about to be deported.¹

Even in Democrat-led cities and states, police and other government officials regularly share data and coordinate with ICE. Right now, organizations are mobilizing people to ask their local sheriffs to refuse to cooperate with ICE’s unconstitutional kidnapping and detention of immigrants.²

People can also push their city leaders to limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE or other federal immigration enforcement agencies. This is one component of many sanctuary policies, which can also include provisions preventing immigration detention centers or allowing immigrants to report crimes to the police without fear of deportation.³

State-level officials can also pass or implement stronger sanctuary policies, create statewide legal defense funds for immigrants, pass policies to protect immigrants’ civil and constitutional rights, and more.

And at the federal level, members of Congress must use our oversight role to hold immigration agencies accountable for violations of our laws and our rights.

For example, my colleagues have introduced multiple policies to force federal immigration agents to stop hiding their faces and badges—including the No Secret Police Act, the No Anonymity in Immigration Enforcement Act, and the Combating Deceptive Immigration Enforcement Practices Act.

I promise to continue fighting for a just immigration system and pushing to abolish ICE. But we urgently need people to press their representatives at all levels of government, asking them to do all they can to defend immigrants and citizens who are at risk of racial profiling.

Please sign on today and demand your elected representatives at all levels of government defend our neighbors from lawless, masked immigration agents!

Thank you for taking action. Instead of sending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to expand ICE (as part of Trump’s Big Budget Betrayal), our government must dismantle ICE and invest in what communities need. Together, we’ll keep working to make a better world with dignity and safety for all.

In solidarity,

Rashida

P.S. You can find Know Your Rights information and other resources for immigrants here.

¹ Michigan woman reports being assaulted to police, now faces deportation
² The #DisappearedInAmerica campaign has a “Talk to Your Sheriff Toolkit” here.
³ Policy Options: Protecting Immigrant Communities at the State and Local Level, Sanctuary Policies: An Overview