To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Refuse to allow taxpayer money for a U.S. border wall
Refuse to allow our taxpayer money to be used for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and denounce Donald Trump’s fiscally unsound immigration policy.
Why is this important?
The budget that the U.S. spends on border patrol has increased by more than 1,300% since 2002 to an astounding $3.8 billion in 2015.
Donald Trump’s official immigration policy announcements this week would almost certainly more than double the current budget by adding 5,000 more border patrol agents, and of course–building a brick-and-mortar wall across the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border. All of this at a time that the flow of undocumented immigrants has actually decreased—in short, it's an expensive, race-baiting absurdity in search of a problem.
And yet, this false solution would have real costs—especially as the president of Mexico just reaffirmed that despite Trump's claims, Mexico will not pay for the wall. The increase in taxpayer dollars that Trump is suggesting–which could likely eclipse $4 billion or more annually–could instead fund the following:
* Education for more than 375,000 school children each year.
* Benefits for more than 650,000 veterans per annual fiscal year.
* Investments in energy efficiencies and renewable energy at triple the rates they were in fiscal year 2015.
Will you join me in asking your Senator to commit to speaking out against Trump's fiscally unsound immigration policy?
Donald Trump’s official immigration policy announcements this week would almost certainly more than double the current budget by adding 5,000 more border patrol agents, and of course–building a brick-and-mortar wall across the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border. All of this at a time that the flow of undocumented immigrants has actually decreased—in short, it's an expensive, race-baiting absurdity in search of a problem.
And yet, this false solution would have real costs—especially as the president of Mexico just reaffirmed that despite Trump's claims, Mexico will not pay for the wall. The increase in taxpayer dollars that Trump is suggesting–which could likely eclipse $4 billion or more annually–could instead fund the following:
* Education for more than 375,000 school children each year.
* Benefits for more than 650,000 veterans per annual fiscal year.
* Investments in energy efficiencies and renewable energy at triple the rates they were in fiscal year 2015.
Will you join me in asking your Senator to commit to speaking out against Trump's fiscally unsound immigration policy?