Washington, D.C. – Tonight, as Trump looks to shamelessly tout his violent crusade against immigrants during his joint address to Congress, immigrant young people and allies are demanding Congress immediately reject any more funding for Trump’s state sanctioned kidnappings.
In just the first weeks of the Trump Administration, there’s been a rise in immigration agents showing up to homes, businesses, and school spaces to forcefully kidnap and abduct thousands of people from their families and communities. These attacks have been indiscriminately cruel, taking place in open streets to community spaces like small businesses, churches and hospitals. Now, Congress is considering funnelling billions more to embolden Trump’s regime while gutting resources to our country’s education, healthcare and social security systems.
Bruna Sollod, Senior Political Director of United We Dream, said:
“While Trump goes on TV tonight to continue his lies and demand Congress give him billions of taxpayer dollars to continue kidnapping immigrants, we must remember that his coordinated anti-immigrant attacks will have devastating consequences on thousands of American communities across the country.
Already we have seen children, like 11-year old Jocellyn Rojo Carranza, be relentlessly bullied over their immigration status and ultimately, tragically take her own life. We’ve seen everyone from public school teachers, family caretakers, and breadwinners be abducted, often with no trace, leaving their families and communities fractured. Trump’s attacks are causing irreparable damage in the spaces where we all live; we see it in the workplaces without workers, the classroom missing their teacher, and the children without their parents.
Every dollar that Congress approves for Trump’s anti-immigrant regime and billionaire private contractors is not only a dollar to continue these mass kidnappings, but a dollar less for our schools, our hospitals, our healthcare. We demand an end to the complacency from our elected officials who are considering even more funding for Trump’s mass abductions. Congress must not let a single dollar more go to these state-sanctioned kidnappings.”
