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• Stop Trump's Fake National Emergency. No Racist Wall. No Power Grab.

  The only crisis at the border is the humanitarian crisis fueled by the Trump administration's attacks on immigrants, separation of families, and criminalization of asylum-seekers. Yet, Trump—in his crusade for a racist, wasteful, unpopular wall—is now planning to declare a fake "national emergency" to seize broad executive power to circumvent Congress and grab funds from other agencies for his wall. The American public does not want this wall and Congress doesn't want to fund it. So Trump, who has been attacking immigrants as a core part of his governing agenda, is now taking extraordinary action to disregard Congress and the Constitutional balance of power. Even Republicans have said this would be vast overreach. Fortunately, there is a Congressional remedy—under the National Emergencies Act, Congress can vote to cancel the state of emergency. Congress can, and must, act now.

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  Created by Van Le, America's Voice
• Tell Congress: Don't fund Trump's border wall

  The border wall that Donald Trump has demanded for years would be an ecological disaster, an enormous waste of money, and an international symbol of intolerance that doesn't represent America's values. But Trump has said that he will shut down the government unless Congress gives him $5 billion for the wall. Congress should not let Trump take our government hostage. Even many Republicans know that the border wall is a bad idea. The money could be better spent on projects related to health care, education, and the economy.

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  Created by Matt Hildreth
• Emergency Response and Preparedness Money Should Not Be Used to Detain Families

  Documents recently obtained by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) revealed that the Trump Administration moved $10 million from FEMA, the agency tasked with protecting us from and preparing us for disasters like hurricanes, to Trump and Jeff Sessions’ detention and deportation efforts. The purpose of FEMA is to reduce the loss of life and property in emergency situation. How FEMA spends its money is often a matter of life and death. This is especially true during hurricane season — and especially true right now, as Hurricane Florence bears down on the East Coast. Overall, $169 million has been taken from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, the U.S. Coast Guard, the TSA, and others so that ICE has millions of dollars more to carry out an extremist agenda of tearing apart families, detaining children, and instilling fear and trauma on those who seek the American Dream. Using funds from FEMA and other agencies for cruel political pet projects like family detention and deportation is not only inhumane, it’s dangerous. Tell the Trump Administration to stop separating families and give this money back!

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  Created by Matt Hildreth
• Tell Squarespace to dump Steve King

  You have probably heard of Steve King. The nine-term Congressman from Iowa is one of the most racist members of Congress. Here are some of the things Steve King has said: - "White nationalist, white supremacist...when did that language become offensive?" - “You can’t rebuild your civilization with someone else’s babies.” - Dreamers aren’t good people because "for every one who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert." There’s a lot more. Just this week we found out that his government website links constituents to a white nationalist blog! It’s time to take action. We have spent too much time over the years blasting King for his head-in-the-sand racism and we should not just denounce him and move on. It’s time to take King’s platforms away. Steve King hosts his campaign website (steveking.com) on Squarespace. Please sign our petition telling Squarespace not to host hate on its platform and to kick King off! There is precedent for this: Squarespace in 2017 gave white supremacist Richard Spencer and a number of other alt-right organizations 48 hours to find a new website host. Other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have deleted accounts belonging to extremists like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos. Media reports subsequently found that those actions dramatically cut down on their audiences. De-platforming works as a way to fight hate. Please SIGN and SHARE our petition telling Squarespace to kick off Steve King!

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  Created by Matt Hildreth, America's Voice
• Tell Rep. Royce to support immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship

  In America we believe that everyone is equal, period. But that's not how our current immigration system works. Under our current immigration laws, immigrants currently living in the US without papers have no way to fix their immigration status and pursue the rights obtained through citizenship. These immigrants -- many of whom are American in every way but on paper -- are doomed to a life in shadows. They are prevented from doing things many US citizens take for granted, like driving, working, applying for credit cards, and even from visiting sick family members overseas. The Senate just passed an immigration bill that will would fix this tragedy by creating a pathway to citizenship for these 11 million Americans without papers. Through this pathway, students, workers, family members, and even some immigrants with deportation orders under the previous broken system would finally be allowed to pursue their American dream and eventual citizenship. Advocates have been fighting for these reforms for years, and we have never seen a better chance for making these dreams a reality. But some anti-immigrant members of Congress -- lead by legislators like Rep. Steve King -- are trying to kill reform by destroying the path to citizenship and promoting inhumane policies that would keep these 11 million people in the shadows so they "self-deport." Our movement has reached a tipping point and we need your help to finish the job. We need you to tell Rep. Ed Royce to support immigration reform with the pathway to citizenship, now more than ever. It's time for Congress to pass this bill. Please tell your representative to vote YES on immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million Americans without papers.

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  Created by Matt Hildreth
• Tell Rep. McCarthy: Support Latino and immigrant voters, not extremists like Steve King

  Recently, House Republicans held a special meeting on immigration. It could have been a disaster. But instead of Rep. Steve King (R-IA) winning the day with his anti-immigrant message, key Republicans stood up to say they can’t afford not to get this done. Pundits in Washington have been trying to declare immigration reform dead, but our hard work is proving them wrong….again. Both Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), two of the three top GOP leaders in the House, acknowledged that they "need to move something" on immigration reform. While it's in no way a commitment to a path to citizenship, it’s an important first step. But there’s a third leader in the House we didn't hear from -- Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). His support is critical because he’s in charge of helping Speaker Boehner gather support in the House. We need to tell Rep. McCarthy to be a leader and speak up in support of the path to citizenship. He needs to stand with Latino and immigrant voters, not extremists like Steve King. The path to citizenship already has majority support in the House -- they just need a chance to vote on it. And with more openness from Speaker Boehner and Rep. Cantor, we’ll keep fighting till we get a vote. But an extreme minority in the House, led by Steve King, could disrupt all of that. His anti-immigrant vitriol could derail all the positive gains we've made so far, all because leaders in the House aren't leading. We need Rep. McCarthy to speak up now and gather support in his party. As a Congressman from California, McCarthy knows Latinos have the power to influence -- in fact, they ousted Republicans statewide after anti-immigrant legislation in the 1990s. Rep. McCarthy’s own district is over 30% Latino. Will Rep. McCarthy learn from history, or let Steve King repeat it?

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  Created by Matt Hildreth
• Stephen Miller must be fired for separating children from families

  Although public pressure has forced Trump to modify the policy for now, families—including children—can be indefinitely detained in what are essentially prisons. There are also no guarantees that the families torn apart will ever be reunited. Stephen Miller has been identified by the press as the senior White House official behind this new "zero tolerance" policy and should be fired immediately. While other officials, such as Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen, have been the public face of this policy, it is Stephen Miller who engineered it — and many of the Trump Administration’s other awful anti-immigrant ideas. Recently, the New York Times reported that “Mr. Miller was instrumental in Mr. Trump’s decision to ratchet up the zero tolerance policy.” Last year, The Guardian reported Stephen Miller was also the policy architect behind the Muslim travel ban. The New Yorker reported that he was responsible for ending temporary protected status for Haitian, Salvadoran, and Honduran immigrants already living in the U.S. Miller’s policies look like a page out of the white nationalist playbook — and that’s because Miller has long identified with members of that movement. He even helped white nationalist Richard Spencer raise money for an immigration debate at Duke University. Stephen Miller’s white nationalist policies have no place in America — let alone the White House. Children don’t belong in cages and families belong together. Sign the petition and tell the White House to fire Stephen Miller for his disastrous and inhumane policy of separating children from parents at the border.

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  Created by Matt Hildreth
• Keep Families Together. Stop Max's Deportation

  Pastor Max Villatoro is my pastor at First Mennonite Church in Iowa City. He was detained Tuesday, March 3 by ICE without being given a chance to say goodbye to his wife and four U.S. Citizen kids. He is not a priority for removal and he is definitely not a threat to national security, border security, or public safety. We need your support to help keep him here with his family. Please sign this petition urging ICE to grant Max Villatoro (A# 094-338-085) a stay of removal. Max’s US Citizen children belong together with their father and Max belongs here in Iowa city with his congregation. He is the type of person who should get a second chance, not deported.

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  Created by Alyssa M. Rodriguez
• Stand with President Obama: Demand a Roadmap to Citizenship for 11 Million Immigrants

  For the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States, there's often no line to get into to become a fully participating American citizen. President Obama wants to fix these broken immigration laws, now the question is, "Will Congress join us or stand in the way?" America is a nation of values founded on the idea that all men and women are created equal, no matter what they look like or where they came from. Please sign this petition and tell Congress to provide a straightforward roadmap to citizenship for these 11 million people.

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  Created by Matt Hildreth
• Tell Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to support immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship

  In America we believe that everyone is equal, period. But that's not how our current immigration system works. Under our current immigration laws, immigrants currently living in the US without papers have no way to fix their immigration status and pursue the rights obtained through citizenship. These immigrants -- many of whom are American in every way but on paper -- are doomed to a life in shadows. They are prevented from doing things many US citizens take for granted, like driving, working, applying for credit cards, and even from visiting sick family members overseas. The Senate just passed an immigration bill that will would fix this tragedy by creating a pathway to citizenship for these 11 million Americans without papers. Through this pathway, students, workers, family members, and even some immigrants with deportation orders under the previous broken system would finally be allowed to pursue their American dream and eventual citizenship. Advocates have been fighting for these reforms for years, and we have never seen a better chance for making these dreams a reality. But some anti-immigrant members of Congress -- lead by legislators like Rep. Steve King -- are trying to kill reform by destroying the path to citizenship and promoting inhumane policies that would keep these 11 million people in the shadows so they "self-deport." Our movement has reached a tipping point and we need your help to finish the job. We need you to tell Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to support immigration reform with the pathway to citizenship, now more than ever. It's time for Congress to pass this bill. Please tell your representative to vote YES on immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million Americans without papers.

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  Created by Matt Hildreth