[1]National Nurses United



Across the country, nurses and other health care workers are standing up
to say enough is enough.

We look out for ALL our patients, full stop. That’s why the invasion of
federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detaining,
intimidating, and terrorizing our neighborhoods goes against everything we
stand for as nurses and patient advocates.

Now they have once again committed a murder in cold blood — this time of
one of our own, Alex Pretti, RN. He was a VA nurse, an ICU nurse right
here in the Minneapolis metro area just like me. And that day, he was just
doing what every nurse does: Caring for people, advocating for his
patients. ICE murdered him for it.

[ [link removed] ]After a year of constant violence and militarization of our
neighborhoods by the Trump administration, the Senate is about to vote to
send $10 billion in funding to continue this harm. Congress must not give
a penny to ICE.

[ [link removed] ]Nurses, other health care workers, and our patients are standing
together to demand justice, accountability, and an end to ICE. Click below
or dial 202-998-6094 now to call your senators and let them know: Our
taxpayer dollars must not be used to murder and terrorize our patients and
communities!

[ [link removed] ]Call your senators →

Calling will only take a moment and each added voice will help create the
public pressure we need to abolish ICE now! You can use the short script
at the end of this email to help you make your voice heard.

I’m an ICU nurse here in Minnesota, but I’m also a president of National
Nurses United. I know firsthand that when nurses organize to protect our
patients and our communities, we win. And I know that we never back down
when our patients and so many of our colleagues — regardless of
immigration status or background — are under attack.

ICE’s campaign is not just immoral and unconstitutional, it is a full
blown public health crisis. Masked ICE agents crowd our waiting rooms and
sometimes even invade our units, standing directly in the way of nurses’
ability to provide care to all our patients. We make it our mission to
care for and save human lives, and we must loudly oppose ICE, who pose a
direct threat to us all. Especially in the wake of Alex Pretti’s
unconscionable murder, one of so many shootings by ICE just this year.
That’s why it’s so important we use our voices now.

[ [link removed] ]Here’s how we do it: Call your U.S. senators and urge them to oppose
ANY appropriations package that includes the Homeland Security
Appropriations bill, take away the $75 billion allocated to ICE in last
year’s Republican budget reconciliation bill, and take immediate action to
abolish ICE.

[ [link removed] ]Call your senators →

Here is a short script below you can follow:

Hi, my name is _______. I am a constituent and I’m a registered
nurse/other health care worker/patient. It is unconscionable, after a year
of constant violence and militarization of our neighborhoods by the Trump
administration, that Congress would consider sending $10 billion in
funding to continue this harm. I’m calling today to urge my senator to
oppose any appropriations package that includes the Homeland Security
Appropriations bill, take away the $75 billion allocated to ICE in last
year’s Republican budget reconciliation bill, and take immediate action to
abolish ICE. Thank you.

 

In times of crisis, nurses don’t look away from our patients in need — we
respond. ICE terror in our hospitals and our communities is the type of
emergency we are uniquely positioned to respond to. With the support of
our patients and our communities, we can make each other safe again.

Thank you for standing with us against this violence,

Mary Turner, RN
President
National Nurses United

P.S. We’re mobilizing to hold an entire week of ongoing candlelight vigils
to honor and seek justice for Alex Pretti and to demand that the U.S.
Senate and House vote no on any spending package that includes funding for
ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies — or face electoral
consequences. [ [link removed] ]Find a vigil near you.



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