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Transform Department of Homeland Security!
Urge our Representatives to strengthen oversight of DHS in its FY2021 Appropriations bill
All Representatives need to hear from their constituents.
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, US 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 millions on an ineffective border wall, be strictly controlled.
We must urge our Representatives now to set limits on both funding and policy for DHS enforcement agencies for Fiscal Year 2021, which begins October 1. The only leverage that Congress has at this point is appropriations to run the agency.
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.
- DHS has shown by its recent actions that Congress needs stronger oversight, more transparency, and better responsiveness to correct identified abuses.
- The House of Representatives should pass an FY2021 DHS appropriations bill with strong oversight provisions in September.
Transform the Department of Homeland Security
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, US 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 millions on an ineffective border wall, be strictly controlled.
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Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) has been the leader for a national UU advocacy movement in Washington, DC., and will continue its efforts, including our advocacy for protection of Black lives.