STOP HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO OBJECT TO CUCINELLI’S POST AS “IMMIGRATION CZAR”
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
… hardline extremist “Immigration Czar” Ken Cuccinelli started work at DHS this week despite not being officially nominated and confirmed by the Senate. DHS is responsible for numerous human rights abuses and violations and Cuccinelli is the wrong leader for this broken agency. Please tell the Senator to continue to object to Trump’s repeated practice of naming “acting” officials in order circumvent the Senate confirmation process. This is a violation of our Constitutional system of checks and balances and should be considered an impeachable offense.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM TO PUSH FOR THE SENATE TO PASS THE HOUSE BILLS
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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…
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR REPRESENTATIVES SCHRADER AND DEFAZIO: … hardline extremist “Immigration Czar” Ken Cuccinelli started work at DHS this week despite not being officially nominated and confirmed by the Senate. DHS is responsible for numerous human rights abuses and violations and Cuccinelli is the wrong leader for this broken agency. And Trump’s repeated practice of naming “acting” officials in order circumvent the Senate confirmation process is a violation of our Constitutional system of checks and balances and should be investigated as an impeachable offense. Please join Representatives Blumenauer and Bonamici in pushing for the House to open an impeachment inquiry now.
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR REPRESENTATIVES BLUMENAUER AND BONAMICI: … hardline extremist “Immigration Czar” Ken Cuccinelli started work at DHS this week despite not being officially nominated and confirmed by the Senate. DHS is responsible for numerous human rights abuses and violations and Cuccinelli is the wrong leader for this broken agency. And Trump’s repeated practice of naming “acting” officials in order circumvent the Senate confirmation process is a violation of our Constitutional system of checks and balances and should be investigated as an impeachable offense. Thank you for supporting an impeachment inquiry. Please continue to push your colleagues in the House to join you in doing so.
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR REPRESENTATIVE WALDEN: … hardline extremist “Immigration Czar” Ken Cuccinelli started work at DHS this week despite not being officially nominated and confirmed by the Senate. DHS is responsible for numerous human rights abuses and violations and Cuccinelli is the wrong leader for this broken agency. And Trump’s repeated practice of naming “acting” officials in order circumvent the Senate confirmation process is a violation of our Constitutional system of checks and balances and should be investigated as an impeachable offense. Please put country over party and safeguard our Constitution.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
PASS ALONG THIS ACTION ALERT, ESPECIALLY TO FRIENDS IN RED STATES. TELL THEM TO KEEP CALLING!
BACKGROUND:
DHS is committing human rights violations in our name. Its own Inspector General recently issued reports about horrific conditions in DHS facilities. In El Paso, the IG reported:
- “conditions … that represent an immediate risk to the health and safety of detainees…
- [d]angerous overcrowding among single adults…
- some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks.
- detainees … wearing soiled clothing for days or weeks
- ongoing concern that rising tensions among detainees could turn violent.”
Elsewhere, the IG stated that there were “immediate risks or egregious violations of detention standards … including nooses in detainee cells, overly restrictive segregation, inadequate medical care, unreported security incidents, and significant food safety issues…” in ICE facilities.
Children and pregnant women sleep on gravel, “bombarded by pigeon droppings.” Immigrants are treated like criminals, shackled to beds in hospitals by DHS officers “…pressuring [doctors] to do something unethical.”
Like North Korea, Trump’s America refuses to respond to official complaints about human rights violations and shuns UN independent watchdogs. It withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council last year.
Hardline extremist Ken Cuccinelli’s backdoor appointment as “Immigration Czar” will continue these travesties. Congress must stop them!
