Congress must reign in ICE and CBP now and they have the power of the
purse to do so.
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Dear Friend,
It’s rare for me to become shocked by the news anymore these days. It
saddens me that I have become so immune to the antics of the White House,
but my jaw did drop the other day when I learned that even as my fellow
North Carolinians prepared for Hurricane Dorian (only a year after
Hurricane Florence devastated communities in eastern North Carolina that
are still struggling to recover), news broke that the Trump Administration
was transferring funds away from FEMA in order to fund his hateful
immigration policies on the southern border. [1]
And that’s not even the whole of it! [ [link removed] ]*Tell the U.S. Congress NOT to
back the backwards priorities of the Trump Administration and instead fund
what families really need.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is overseen by the Trump
Administration, is playing a shell game with allocated funds for disaster
relief and military construction in order to keep immigrant children in
detention centers and build Trump’s useless wall. Included in this was
$400 million in funding for ten construction projects in Puerto Rico,
which is still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017.
[2] And $1.8 billion in cuts to military construction projects, which
include a medical facility at Camp Lejeune (one of the bases still
recovering from last year’s hurricane season), an elementary school at Ft.
Bragg, and a new fire station for a Marine Corps base in South Carolina.
[3]
It can’t be repeated enough—the Trump Administration took funds away from
emergency assistance at the start of hurricane season and military bases
that house our troops and their families, in order to jail immigrant
children and their parents.
Let me be perfectly clear: Our nation’s budgets are supposed to reflect
our values and priorities, and we don’t want another dime of our tax
dollars going towards a detention center that jails immigrant children or
the construction of a harmful wall!
[ [link removed] ]***SIGN OUR LETTER NOW calling on the U.S. Congress to prioritize what
our families really need—nutrition, healthcare, education, and disaster
assistance programs—in budget negotiations and reject funding for family
separation and Trump’s hateful immigration policies.
The question of funding is an important one since Congress needs to decide
on a budget by the end of this month. A budget says everything about our
priorities as a nation and President Trump's priorities are clear: He
wants to use our hard earned tax dollars to fund detention centers that
jail children and separate them from their families rather than programs
that we really need that provide emergency aid in times of disaster,
supporting our troops and their families, nutrition assistance,
healthcare, education funding, and money to fix our roads and
infrastructure.
[ [link removed] ]It is not too late for Congress to re-assert its authority over the
funding of these policies!
Congress must fight the atrocities President Trump is committing at the
Southern border and throughout this country by holding ICE and Customs and
Border Patrol (CBP), accountable for human rights abuses like separating
thousands of children and parents at the border without even bothering to
document which children belonged to which parents. [4] At this time,
significantly cutting funding for these agencies is the best route to
holding the Trump Administration accountable for these human rights abuses
and preventing further abuses.
Under the Trump Administration, detention of individuals and families has
exploded by more than 50%, from 34,000 average daily population (ADP)
under the Obama administration to its current level of 53,000 ADP. [5]
Many of these families have relatives who are ready to house them.
Congress has enabled this mass incarceration of immigrants by increasing
funding for ICE by over a billion dollars (!!) since the start of the
Trump administration. Yet, the Trump administration is trying to exceed
even this huge increase in funding by raiding funds designated for FEMA
and military construction projects.
Congress must reign in ICE and CBP now and they have the power of the
purse to do so.
[ [link removed] ]***Sign our letter NOW calling on Congress to pass a budget that lifts
up all families and cuts funding for Trump’s hateful anti-immigrant
policies!
Children deserve to be with their families outside of cages and they must
have their rights protected. Family separation and family incarceration
compounds the existing trauma and stress that children and families have
already experienced in their home country or on their journey to the U.S.
There are alternatives to family detention that are not only more
compassionate for children and families, but also more fiscally
responsible. For example, asylum seeking families may be released from
detention through a family case management program, which has a nearly 100
percent success rate in ensuring the families attend their hearings. The
family case management program costs only $36/day, while family detention
costs on average $1,280/day for a family of four. [6]
It’s time for our federal budget to truly reflect our morals as a nation.
Don’t forget to [ [link removed] ]sign our letter to your members of Congress. After you
add your signature, forward this email to five friends and post our action
link to [ [link removed] ]Facebook and [ [link removed]'s+horrible+immigration+policies.+SIGN+%40MOMSRISING'S+LETTER+NOW! ]Twitter. The more people we get to speak out,
the louder our voices will be! Congress will be making major funding
decisions over the next few weeks before the October 1^st deadline.
Thank you for continuing to speak out for all of our families!
-Beth, Tina, Elyssa, Xochitl, Linda, Donna, Felicia, Ruby, Sheila, Kelle,
Jessica, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising/Mamás Con Poder team
P.S. After you sign our letter, call your U.S. Senators and tell them to
stand up against hate by refusing to fund President Trump’s harmful
immigration policies. [ tel:%201-888-897-0174 ]1-888-897-0174
[1] [ [link removed] ]Julia Ainsley and Frank Thorp V. “Trump admin pulling millions
from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border.” NBC News, August
27, 2019.
[2] [ [link removed] ]Dareh Gregorian, Mosheh Gains, and Alex Moe. “Puerto Rico was
devastated by Hurricane Maria. It’s about to lose $400M more to Trump’s
border wall.” NBC News, September 4, 2019.
[3] [ [link removed] ]Tara Copp. “Fort Bragg among N.C. military bases to take $80M hit
to fund Trump’s border wall.” The News and Observer, September 4, 2019.
[4] [ [link removed] ]Jacob Soboroff. “Emails show Trump admin had ‘no way to link’
separated migrant children to parents.” NBC News, May 1, 2019
[5] [ [link removed] ]Bea Bischoff. “Immigrant Detention Conditions Were Atrocious Under
Obama. Here’s Why They’re So Much Worse Under Trump.” Slate, June 25,
2019.
[6] [ [link removed] ]Women’s Refuge Commission. “Family Case Management Program.”
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