PASS A BUDGET THAT DEFUNDS HATE

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…
While the Senator works to support impeachment hearings on Trump’s abuses at the border, I am asking that he make sure that any budget, including a short term spending agreement, defunds hate.  There must be 
  • no increased funding for ICE or CBP, or a border wall
  • humanitarian safeguards for immigrants.  
  • language to stop Trump’s shell game of moving money from other agencies to fund ICE, the wall or any other anti-immigrant actions.  Thank you.”

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…
While the Representative works to support impeachment hearings on Trump’s abuses at the border, I am asking that he/she makes sure that any budget, including a short term spending agreement, defunds hate. There must be:
  • no increased funding for ICE or CBP, or a border wall
  • humanitarian safeguards for immigrants.  
  • language to stop Trump’s shell game of moving money from other agencies to fund ICE, the wall or any other anti-immigrant actions.  Thank you.” 

BACKGROUND:

It’s urgent that Congress get a budget passed in order to keep the government funded and operating.  But they must ensure the budget does not support this administrations racist anti-immigration agenda by insisting on:

  • Less money for ICE and CBP.  And no money without significant humanitarian safeguards for immigrants.  Trump’s budget proposal is seeking an increase of more than $3 billion. More money means more surveillance and raids on immigrant communities, more privatized, for-profit immigrant prison camps, more deportation of refugees seeking asylum.  

  • No money for a border wall. Trump wants $8.6 billion more budgeted for his xenophobic boondoggle.

  • No money for “discretionary appropriations for DHS”, which oversees the ICE and CBP budgets.  Trump wants $51.7 billion to spend. Without oversight. At his “discretion.”

  • Protection of services vital to our health and national security.  Trump seeks large cuts including 15%, to USDA, 31% to EPA and 23% to the State Department.

  • Language in the budget which will stop Trump from stealing Congressionally allocated funds from other agencies to increase money going to ICE, the wall, or any other anti-immigrant actions.
Call your MOC.  Tell them to pass a budget that defunds hate and demands humanitarian safeguards for immigrants.

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