To: Democratic Governors
Democratic governors: Stand up and protect the immigrants in your state NOW!
ICE and Border Patrol agents have been infiltrating our cities for months—pointing their guns at observers, racially profiling people of color, and detaining our neighbors without due process—all in an effort to carry out Donald Trump’s extreme deportation agenda. These masked, untrained, and heavily armed agents are continuously using aggressive tactics and lethal force, completely disregarding the protections of our Constitution and putting every single one of us at risk.
Our governors must stand up and protect our cities and states from this violence. We’ve seen the people of Minneapolis, and many other communities under siege, come together and protect their neighbors. If everyday people can stand up to the Trump administration to try to stop this violence, so can our state leaders.
Why is this important?
In the first year of Trump’s second term, we’ve seen militarized ICE agents aggressively patrolling our streets, wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens and legal residents, and carrying out a record number of deportations. And the Trump administration has made it clear: They are only getting started. The hateful rhetoric of this administration paired with the violent tactics of ICE and Border Patrol are sowing fear into our communities and causing lasting damage to our country.
Governors have the ability to immediately take strong countermeasures to protect immigrant communities within their states. Together, we can demand accountability and ensure our state leaders stand up to the Trump administration's senseless violence by doing whatever’s necessary to protect our neighbors.
We are calling on Democratic governors to immediately implement these crucial policies to protect their states from Trump’s lawless attacks on immigrants:
- Immediately terminate and prohibit all statewide and local 287(g) agreements—contracts that allow local and state police to function as immigration agents for ICE.
- Pass or strengthen 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.
- Establish oversight bodies to investigate civil rights violations by federal immigration agents operating in their states.
Our state leaders cannot sit idly by, allowing Trump to decimate our communities and deport our neighbors. His anti-immigrant agenda goes beyond mass deportations—he is also trying to cut constitutional rights like birthright citizenship and critical public benefits for U.S. citizen children. In the face of these devastating policies, our states 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 stop mass deportations and protect immigrants?