NO MORE MONEY FOR CRUEL AND LAWLESS IMMIGRATION AGENCIES
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I believe in an America where children and parents are protected. I want Congress to pass policies that keep families together and show mercy to refugees. Therefore, I do not support a deal to fast-track up to $4.5 billion for border patrol operations in return for disaster relief funding. DHS already has more than $11 billion for immigration and border security, which it is spending in cruel and sometimes lawless ways. Please speak against this deal and do not vote for it. Thank you.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
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SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I believe in an America where children and parents are protected. I want Congress to pass policies that keep families together and show mercy to refugees. Therefore, I do not support a deal to fast-track up to $4.5 billion for border patrol operations in return for disaster relief funding. DHS already has more than $11 billion for immigration and border security, which it is spending in cruel and sometimes lawless ways. Please speak against this deal and do not vote for it. Thank you.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
BACKGROUND:
Humanitarian relief is needed at the border because of cruel Administration policies and inhumane DHS actions, not because of a lack of money. DHS has a combined $11.5 billion for CBP and ICE.
–ICE paid $807 million to for-profit prison companies in FY2018 for substandard facilities and abusive treatment. Migrants work in slave labor conditions for pennies a day. ICE permits lax oversight of its already minimal standards.
–22 immigrants have died in detention facilities in the past two, years, plus four young children who died since December.
–CPB agents have dumped water in the desert, violated constitutional guarantees, abused detainees, and carried out the family separation policy in particularly sadistic ways.
DoD just announced that it will divert money to build 6 tent cities to be run by ICE. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/u-s-military-build-6-tent-cities-border-migrants-n1006161
Congress should not fast-track up to $4.5 billion in the guise of humanitarian relief.
SOURCES:
ICE and private prisons: https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar800-million-in-taxpayer-money-went-to-private-prisons-where-migrants-work-for-pennies
Deaths and abuses in detention centers: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/22-immigrants-died-ice-detention-centers-during-past-2-years-n954781
Cruelty by CPB: https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/america-doesnt-need-more-border-patrol-agents and
DoD plans to build 6 tent cities for ICE. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/u-s-military-build-6-tent-cities-border-migrants-n1006161
