Dear John,
Next week Congress will return from their recess. When they do, we need them to hear two important messages. Will you help us get those messages through?
Reopen the border to asylum seekers immediately: Everyone deserves to live in safety and peace. But for the past two years, immigrants have been stopped from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to apply for asylum in the U.S. The Biden administration has finally announced that this policy, known as Title 42, will end May 23rd. However, Republican members of Congress are trying to reinstate it using an upcoming COVID-19 relief bill and other legislation.
Send a message to Congress today: Protect and restore the right to seek asylum!
Move the money: The Biden administration has proposed $813,000,000,000 in military spending in the 2023 federal budget. But our communities would be safer if we invested those funds in meeting people’s basic needs. Let’s join together and urge our leaders to deliver better health care, schools, and jobs—not more money for weapons, war, and corporate defense contractors.
Tell Congress: Cut the Pentagon budget and invest in our communities!
Thank you for supporting our efforts.
In peace,
Aura Kanegis
P.S. Want to learn more about the call to move money out of militarism and into our communities? Join us for our upcoming webinar: Demilitarizing the budget (May 3, 7 p.m. / 4 p.m. PT)
