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To: Democratic Governors, Attorney Generals
Democratic governors: Prevent mass deportation NOW!
After months of campaign threats to deploy the military and National Guard to raid our communities, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to deport record numbers of immigrants. Our local and state governments must take proactive action immediately to defend our immigrant communities from Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
Why is this important?
President-elect Trump has repeatedly vowed to conduct the “largest deportation effort in American history” and plans to mobilize the military and National Guard to raid our communities. These plans are instilling fear in our immigrant neighbors and, if carried out, will traumatize families through cruel separation efforts. We must prepare NOW to protect our immigrant neighbors’ safety and rights in the face of mass deportation efforts.
The election results are not a mandate for cruelty. Governors and local governments have the ability to take strong, proactive countermeasures to protect immigrant communities immediately. Together, we can make sure our local governments are prepared to mount a defense and blunt the worst of Trump’s white supremacist plans.
Governors and local governments can immediately implement these crucial policies to protect our immigrant communities:
The election results are not a mandate for cruelty. Governors and local governments have the ability to take strong, proactive countermeasures to protect immigrant communities immediately. Together, we can make sure our local governments are prepared to mount a defense and blunt the worst of Trump’s white supremacist plans.
Governors and local governments can immediately implement these crucial policies to protect our immigrant communities:
- Use sanctuary measures that prevent the use of state and local resources in ICE’s deportation and detention operations
- Prepare a coordinated response to mass raids by convening a task force to communicate when and where deportations are taking place and funding emergency resources, such as legal clinics, for deportation defense
- Expand and publicize state assistance programs, including medical care and food assistance, for mixed-status families and undocumented immigrants in the event Trump cuts basic services to noncitizens
It’s imperative that our local officials take Trump at his word and his record. His anti-immigrant agenda goes beyond mass deportations—it includes cutting constitutional rights like birthright citizenship and cutting critical public benefits for U.S. citizen children while ramping up the militarization needed to enforce his cruel policies. In the face of these devastating policies, our local governments must step into their power as the first line of defense in protecting our immigrant communities.
Will you sign the petition to tell Democratic governors to take decisive action NOW to prevent mass deportations and protect immigrants?