Today’s passage of #DreamAndPromise by the House is the result of decades of deep organizing by immigrant communities & reflects the urgent need to provide protection from deportation.
But the addition of harsh criminalization provisions in this version is very concerning.
But the addition of harsh criminalization provisions in this version is very concerning.
The policing & mass incarceration systems in this country are fundamentally rigged against Black & Latinx ppl, and the #DreamAndPromise Act is no exception.
#HR6 is designed to strip access to Biden's promise of immigration reform from people who have experienced police contact.
#HR6 is designed to strip access to Biden's promise of immigration reform from people who have experienced police contact.
Criminalization born of a racist system cant be the measure we use to determine who belongs & who goes.
Instead of extending access to undocumented communities of color #HR6 has punitive provisions that could make anyone who’s committed a misdemeanor ineligible for legal status.
Instead of extending access to undocumented communities of color #HR6 has punitive provisions that could make anyone who’s committed a misdemeanor ineligible for legal status.
Rather than deliver on the promise that @POTUS made to 11 million undocumented ppl in this country, #HR6 will strip rights for ppl who've experienced police contact.
Rather than protect young ppl who've been falsely accused of gang affiliation, HR6 denies them of a future here.
Rather than protect young ppl who've been falsely accused of gang affiliation, HR6 denies them of a future here.
It has to be said:
In a country notorious for its racist policing practices, excluding people with a criminal history or prior police contact from citizenship is fundamentally unjust.
#DreamAndPromise #HR6 #NoMoreExclusions
In a country notorious for its racist policing practices, excluding people with a criminal history or prior police contact from citizenship is fundamentally unjust.
#DreamAndPromise #HR6 #NoMoreExclusions
Categorically denying someone from legal status due to a past conviction will only doubly punish communities surviving cycles of family separation caused by incarceration and deportation.
#DreamAndPromise #HR6 #NoMoreExclusions
#DreamAndPromise #HR6 #NoMoreExclusions
With #HR6, Congressional Democrats *ADDED* criminal bars to legal status & citizenship that dramatically narrow the opportunities for citizenship for undocumented Black & Latinx residents who deserve to be recognized by their government.
#DreamAndPromise
#DreamAndPromise
Keeping it real:
Every time Congress adds a criminal bar, it condemns thousands as disposable -- unworthy of citizenship -- and allows ICE undue discretion to make life and death decisions over who is allowed to remain in the country they call home.
#DreamAndPromise #HR6
Every time Congress adds a criminal bar, it condemns thousands as disposable -- unworthy of citizenship -- and allows ICE undue discretion to make life and death decisions over who is allowed to remain in the country they call home.
#DreamAndPromise #HR6
The Biden admin gave hope to the 11 million undocumented ppl living in the US, that a path to citizenship was near.
But when @POTUS allows ICE to deport anyone who has an “aggravated felony' (which includes nonviolent charges) he's not living up to his promise.
#DreamAndPromise
But when @POTUS allows ICE to deport anyone who has an “aggravated felony' (which includes nonviolent charges) he's not living up to his promise.
#DreamAndPromise
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