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Action Alert: Senators, Transform the Department of Homeland Security
Urge our Senators to strengthen oversight of DHS in its FY2021 Appropriations bill and include Immigrants in the COVID relief bill
All Senators need to hear from their constituents, especially those on the Appropriations Committee.
The Department of Homeland Security includes the agencies that enforce immigration and customs laws (Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and provide services for immigrants’ legal residence and citizenship United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). UUSJ encourages that these immigration-related agencies, which have aggressively enforced anti-immigrant policies, placed the lives of asylum-seekers at risk and spent billions on an ineffective border wall, be strictly controlled. DHS must not reprogram funds from other agencies to enforcement activity.
Further, past COVID relief bills have excluded those immigrants without social security numbers and their families, even if they are working in frontline jobs and paying taxes.
Talking Points
- The Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agencies need to be transformed into reputable non-politicized organizations that efficiently, professionally, and humanely implement reasonable immigration and customs policies.
- Expensive and elaborate fences are not appropriate border barriers.
- The Senate should pass an FY2021 DHS appropriations bill with strong oversight provisions in September.
- The Senate should pass the HEROES Act including health and economic aid for immigrant families that were excluded from past relief bills.
Transform the Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agencies need to be transformed into reputable non-politicized organizations that efficiently, professionally, and humanely implement reasonable immigration and customs policies.
The Senate should pass an FY2021 DHS appropriations bill with strong oversight provisions in September.
The Senate should pass the HEROES Act including health and economic aid for immigrant families that were excluded from past relief bills.
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