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.”
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…
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.”
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:
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.
