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actionnetwork.orgFund communities, not immigrant detention and Pentagon contractors House Republicans want to cut food assistance and health care to increase Pentagon funding by at least $150 billion and ICE funding by $175 billion―and both are in departments that have never passed a “clean audit.” These huge increases in funding are a slush fund for wasteful Pentagon contractors and private prisons used for detention and family separation, and come at the expense of programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and education programs. Trillions of dollars spent―and unaccounted for―undermines our security by preventing us from investing in the shared prosperity that comes from more housing, climate and public health protections, ending hunger, improving access to care, and more education. By now we’ve all read the reports of how federal contractors are price gouging the Pentagon by up to 40% in some cases. In fact, so-called defense corporations like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrum Grumman get roughly half of the nearly $900 billion Pentagon budget every year. Much of this additional funding will also go towards paying for private prisons and detention centers used for family separation and mass deportations―and the corporations who own those prisons are seeing their profits soar. After giving $2 million to Republican PACs, the head of a private prison company named the GEO Group, reported they were getting an unprecedented interest in new contracts, saying, “We’ve never seen anything like this before.” A report from the National Immigrant Justice Center revealed that immigrants in privately owned detention centers face a myriad of mistreatment and abuses including punitive use of solitary confinement, lack of due process, and discriminatory treatment towards people who identify as LGBTQ. Congress needs to hear from you now. Click “Start Writing” to urge Congress to reject extra funding for ICE and the Pentagon and invest in our communities instead. If Congress is looking for ways to cut waste, fraud, and abuse―start by looking at the Pentagon.

#ImmigrantRights #RefugeeRights #RefugeesWelcome #HumanRights #TakeAction Sign to send a message to your members of Congress: Stop Trump’s racist mass deportations! | Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund
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actionnetwork.orgSign to send a message to your members of Congress: Stop Trump’s racist mass deportations! ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids are terrorizing immigrants across the United States. Federal agents are violating immigrants’ constitutional rights by arresting people without reasonable suspicion. Even though being here as an undocumented person is a civil violation and not a crime, federal agents are arresting undocumented people who have no criminal records. Trump’s mass deportation policies are also harming people with valid visas and U.S. citizens who are impacted by racial profiling, including people from Puerto Rico and people who are Indigenous to these lands, because they are brown. For example, some Native residents of Arizona and New Mexico have already reportedly been questioned or detained by federal immigration agents, so Tribal leaders are encouraging people to carry identification documentation and sharing Know Your Rights information for encounters with agents. The Trump administration has also challenged the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, including Native people’s citizenship -- ignoring the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and 100 years of case law in addition to the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. The administration is emboldening federal agencies (including ICE, Customs & Border Patrol, and the FBI) to disregard laws and abuse power across the United States, which endangers all of our communities. Government officials around the country are joining organizations to challenge many of these actions in court. Now, members of Congress must also step up and do more to push back. They can refuse to fund immigration raids or detention centers, reject Trump nominees, vote no on xenophobic policies, conduct oversight visits of immigration detention centers, and speak out forcefully to pressure the Trump administration to walk back their illegal actions. But they need to hear from us. Click ‘START WRITING’ to send a message to your members of Congress: Act with urgency to protect our communities and stop Trump’s racist mass deportations.

#ImmigrantRights #RefugeeRights #RefugeesWelcome #HumanRights #TakeAction Tell Congress: Tax dollars allocated to the U.S. military must not power Trump’s deportation machine
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actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Tax dollars allocated to the U.S. military must not power Trump’s deportation machine Trump is working overtime to weaponize the Department of Defense (DoD) to detain and deport undocumented immigrants. It’s a misuse of billions of taxpayer dollars, an egregious abuse of national security resources, and it’s sure to have devastating consequences — for immigrants and servicemembers alike. If you find it abhorrent, you’re far from alone. A recent Axios-Ipsos poll revealed that 62 percent of people across ALL parties oppose using money allocated to the U.S. military to pay for deportation efforts. That opposition ticks even higher — to 72 percent — when people are asked about active duty servicemembers being tasked with finding undocumented immigrants. That’s not all: Using military resources to detain and deport immigrants isn’t just morally wrong, it’s also financially reckless, cravenly politicizes servicemembers, and may be illegal. Despite this, the Trump administration has already begun to use aircraft, intelligence systems, and to deploy troops to strengthen a deportation machine capable of devastating millions of lives. We know that polling won’t be enough. It’ll take the strength of an entire movement, tirelessly speaking out, to avoid further abuse and harm. Together, we will remind Congress that Trump’s schemes aren’t just bad policy, they’re bad politics — exactly the kind of message that can push lawmakers to block taxpayer funds allocated for military operations from being used to target undocumented immigrants.