REJECT THE DEPORTATION & DETENTION AGENDA
The administration is trying to use the money from The Big Ugly Bill to do a massive expansion in detention facilities across the country. They have been buying up properties, and sometimes actually converting warehouses into camps that will hold human beings, often in dangerous and horrifying conditions.
We have a chance to stop this expansion in its tracks, in partnership with experts across the country, by speaking up and demanding our elected officials speak up too. This is already working – and even some Republicans are criticizing the warehouses – from Pennsylvania, to Tennessee, and beyond. So let’s keep up the pressure.
Here’s your suggested script:
I am calling to ask that you publicly use every tool at your disposal to oppose any proposed expansion of DHS detention facilities in our community and around the country.
We cannot accept holding human beings in dangerous and horrifying conditions. Such facilities already detain over 70,000 people a year, and new “mega-warehouses” will lead to even more people held in inhumane, dangerous conditions.
Immigrants are important members of our local communities, and we cannot accept an inhumane facility like this in our community or anywhere in the United States.
I expect you to use your power as my elected official to reject localized expansions of Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.
Bill Hagerty
865-595-4253
202-224-4944
901-544-4224
Marsha Blackburn
423-753-4009
202-224-3344
901-527-9199
Tim Burchett
865-523-3772
202-225-5435
865-984-5464
Chuck Fleischmann
865-576-1976
202-225-3271
423-756-4342