Five Democratic State Representatives filed a bill that would make it a crime for local public officials not to aggressively target immigrants in our community and allow any citizen to sue them if they didn’t. This measure forces every local official to be a tool of Trump’s racist immigration policy. Tell Reps. Corvese, Ucci, Phillips, Coughlin, and O’Brien this bill goes against Rhode Island values & and Democratic values. Representatives, take your names off it!
Why is this important?
Immigrants who live in Rhode Island, our families and our neighbors, face escalating threats from Trump racist policies. These policies are tearing families apart and trample on civil and human rights. Now, several of our Democratic lawmakers want to make it a crime for our local officials not aggressively enforce their policies.
This bill would destroy local efforts to build trust between local officials and the immigrant community. And when our neighbors are afraid to call the cops, we are all less safe.
This bill would undermine our values and our safety. It has no place in the Rhode Island State House. Tell Reps. Corvese, Ucci, Phillips, Coughlin, and O’Brien to take their names off it now.
