We Need Pathways for 11 million in BBB

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Our Neighbors Need Build Back Better with Pathways to Citizenship

Everything in the House-passed version of Build Back Better is under negotiation in the Senate, particularly among the caucus in leadership. Among the most hotly debated issues are pathways to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented immigrants, not just the temporary House provisions covering 7 million undocumented neighbors in our communities.

For that, the Senate must be brave and disregard the parliamentarian’s advice, as many allies are urging. For this reason, this action contacts Senate Democrats exclusively. Senate Republicans are not involved in this aspect of negotiations. They have repeatedly said immigration factors in BBB are for the other caucus.

Our voices of solidarity can make a difference, they matter. It is urgent and vital to press Congress on their pledge to pass a pathway to citizenship during the 117th session, this year.

The Senate must protect the House proposal elements and build on them to cover all 11 million in the Build Back Better Act.

Acting On Multiple Fronts:

UUSJ’s action teams, and many of its allies, are all responding to the legislative moment and focusing on the Build Back Better Act (BBB). Advocates are trying to save this productivity package from faltering, for fear of what it means for our people, communities, and the planet. Each has distinct reasons for engaging and is responding to slightly different needs. And in the background, all are worried about the precedent set with democracy legislation during January.

UUSJ is compelled to provide an opportunity for each team responding to this circumstance, but encourages you to act for all! (Please return to the main webpage.)

For Immigration Justice, the Immigration Action Team invites you to urge the inclusion of Pathways to Citizenship in BBB.

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Tell your Senators:

Our Neighbors Need Build Back Better with Pathways to Citizenship

Our voices of solidarity can make a difference, they matter. It is urgent and vital to press Congress on their pledge to pass a pathway to citizenship during the 117th session, this year.

Senate Democrats must protect the House proposal elements and build on them to cover all 11 million in BBB.

Immigration BBB to Senate, Feb 2022

Subject: We Need Pathways for 11 million in BBB

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I ask you to pass the Build Back Better Act with the immigration provisions protecting undocumented immigrants—all 11 million. As a Unitarian Universalist, a person of faith, I believe in: - the inherent worth and dignity of every person; and, - justice, equity and compassion in human relations. These principles compel me to affirm caring for ourselves and our families, interacting with strangers, and valuing diversity. It means caring for neighbors regardless of legal status, and a belief my government should treat them justly and humanely. The House version of the bill provides work permits and protections from deportation for 7 million undocumented people, and I value that proposal. Yet, it is essential for our communities that Congress deliver a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented people this year, this session, now–through Build Back Better. Our undocumented folks in our communities helped keep the supply chains operating, and our economy going throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They have helped staff health facilities and care for our elders in desperate and isolated times. They have provided childcare services as schools faltered. They have served our communities with diligence and care and it is time to treat them with dignity and respect by creating permanent protections and a pathway to citizenship. My community welcomes immigrants and views them as vital to economic recovery and the health of our local area economies. Therefore, I urge you to protect immigration provisions in the package for the 7 million and move to include the full 11 million even if that means the parliamentarian’s advice must be disregarded. We need a more equitable immigration system that centers basic human dignity, and you can help make that happen by including a path to citizenship, with green cards, through a registry update. With a Build Back Better Act that includes pathways to citizenship, we can put an end to the intolerable fear of deportations and abhorrent family separation that impacts our entire community.

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