CONGRESS MUST PROTECT OUR LIVES
ACTION ONE: JOIN US AT #INDIVISIBLETUESDAY
Join us today at 11:30 a.m. outside the offices of Sen. Wyden and Rep Blumenauer in the courtyard of the Federal building at 911 NE 11th Ave.
We will thank Senator Wyden for bearing witness at the border, supporting HR 8 and HR 1112*, voting NO on previous budgets that supported ICE/CBP, and supporting an impeachment inquiry.
We will thank Congressman Blumenauer for bearing witness at the border, voting YES on HR 8 and HR 1112*, voting NO on previous budgets that supported ICE/CBP and being a leader on impeachment inquiry in the House.
We will ask them to keep pushing for:
- immediate impeachment hearings. Trump must be held accountable for his illegal treatment of our neighbors at the border.
- a budget that cuts ICE and CBP to “FY16” levels
- passage of meaningful gun violence prevention legislation in the Senate
*HR 8 – background check bill; HR 1112 – closing the Charleston loophole
ACTION TWO: 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’m appalled at how Trump and his administration are putting lives at risk by deporting immigrants with life threatening conditions, refusing to provide flu vaccines for detained refugees, and obstructing gun violence legislation. I know the Senator is a champion on these issues. I ask the Senator to keep pushing for:
- immediate impeachment hearings. Trump must be held accountable for his illegal treatment of our neighbors a the border.
- a budget that cuts ICE and CBP to “FY16” levels
- passage of meaningful gun violence prevention legislation in the Senate
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION THREE: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
For Blumenauer, Bonamici, Defazio: I’m appalled at how Trump and his administration are putting lives at risk by deporting immigrants with life threatening conditions, refusing to provide flu vaccines for detained refugees, and obstructing gun violence legislation. I know the Representative is a champion on these issues. I ask the Representative to push for:
- immediate impeachment hearings. Trump must be held accountable for his illegal treatment of our neighbors a the border.
- a budget that cuts ICE and CBP to “FY16” levels
- passage of meaningful gun violence prevention legislation in the Senate
For Schrader, Walden: I’m appalled at how Trump and his administration are putting lives at risk by deporting immigrants with life threatening conditions, refusing to provide flu vaccines for detained refugees, and obstructing gun violence legislation. I ask the Representative to push for:
- immediate impeachment hearings. Trump must be held accountable for his illegal treatment of our neighbors a the border.
- a budget that cuts ICE and CBP to “FY16” levels
- passage of meaningful gun violence prevention legislation in the Senate
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:
What does it mean when our government enacts policies/takes positions that worsen/endanger our lives?
Trump and his GOP’s rolling back of environmental regulations, attacking our safety net, denying the climate crisis, have negative consequences for our lives.
Trump and his GOP’s escalating attacks on immigrants and inaction on gun violence will directly cost lives.
Trump and his GOP’s separation and treatment of families at the border will cause lifelong trauma. Their new policies of deporting immigrants with fragile medical conditions and denying flu vaccines to detained refugees will result in deaths.
The gun violence epidemic didn’t start with Trump and his GOP, but they actively obstruct containment of this issue. Trump capitulated to the NRA last month, promising no movement on background checks. Mitch McConnell refuses to allow a vote on gun violence legislation that passed the Democratically-led house months ago.
Much of Oregon’s Congressional delegation have acted to combat these heinous attacks on immigrants and championed gun violence legislation. We are thankful for their leadership and ask them to keep pushing for
- immediate impeachment hearings
- a budget that cuts ICE and CBP to “FY16” levels
- passage of meaningful gun violence prevention legislation
Lives depend on it.
SOURCES:
- Trump administration seeks to deport children with life-threatening illnesses
- Trump’s plan to cage kids indefinitely while denying them vaccines is ethnic cleansing in plain site
- Trump tells NRA chief that universal background checks are off the table
- Here’s the House gun control legislation Mitch McConnell refuses to take up in the Senate after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton
