To: U.S. Congress
Stop the USCIS Furloughs
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From Day One, the Trump Administration has led a failed immigration strategy driven by their deeply held xenophobic ideology and cynical political ambitions, not guided by the best interests of Americans, our families or our economy. The result — a financial crisis at USCIS that will harm thousands of federal workers in the middle of a pandemic.
Congress must rescue the agency from the Trump administration and avoid furloughs of federal workers. This means providing USCIS the funding it needs to avoid furloughs, reversing the actions that got them here in the first place, preventing more of it in the future.
Congress must also ensure that the rescue money — American tax dollars — is spent in ways that reflect the values of the nation, not the xenophobic views of Stephen Miller, President Trump, and the rest of the administration that have locked people out of the immigration system based upon wealth, race, over-zealous enforcement, and bureaucratic red tape.
Congress must rescue the agency from the Trump administration and avoid furloughs of federal workers. This means providing USCIS the funding it needs to avoid furloughs, reversing the actions that got them here in the first place, preventing more of it in the future.
Congress must also ensure that the rescue money — American tax dollars — is spent in ways that reflect the values of the nation, not the xenophobic views of Stephen Miller, President Trump, and the rest of the administration that have locked people out of the immigration system based upon wealth, race, over-zealous enforcement, and bureaucratic red tape.
Why is this important?
The impending furloughs facing two-thirds of USCIS workers would have larger damaging implications on the country as a whole – from doctors and other essential workers who would be unable to keep working and serving the country during the pandemic to Dreamers whose DACA renewals would be unable to process; from more delays and roadblocks for naturalization to the potential hard-hit local economies that would be affected in California, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Vermont by local furloughs at large USCIS offices.