The stark policy choice: should America welcome kids fleeing violence or send them back to the violence they fled? bit.ly/3rbYLOE
"When the noise dies down and the fog lifts, the policy choice at the heart of the current border debate is stark: should we protect kids who are fleeing for their lives, or should we send them back to the danger they are fleeing?" - @FrankSharry
"Trump and his GOP followers want to send the kids back to danger. Biden and the Democrats think we should protect these children rather than sending them back into the burning house they escaped." - @FrankSharry
"While the political class clucks and crows about ‘the crisis’ at the border, we are going to side with the administration that finds terrified children at the door, takes them in to keep them safe, and sends them on to loved ones." - @FrankSharry
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Citizenship for Essential Workers Act: the right thing to do for the nation bit.ly/3qVV0gu#WeAreHome
"From the moment the pandemic locked down the country, immigrant essential workers have been risking their lives to help the United States survive." - @douglasrivlin
"On farms and in the fields, in hospitals and kitchens, as home health aides, nurses, drivers, delivery persons and so many key categories of work, their work has sustained us." - @douglasrivlin
Leading voices: time to create pathways to citizenship for Dreamers, TPS/DED holders and farmworkers bit.ly/3vuE5Ff#WeAreHome
"The American people are ready for decisive action to put millions of undocumented immigrants on pathways to citizenship. Immigrant youth, TPS/DED holders, and farm workers are ready. Democrats in Congress are ready. The American people are ready." - @FrankSharry
"In particular, we’ll be keeping our eyes on the 34 House Republicans who voted for the farm worker bill last Congress and remain in office as well as the 6 House Republicans who voted for Dream and Promise in 2019 and are still serving." - @FrankSharry
House Minority Leader @GOPLeader targets immigrant children at the border, but not the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol bit.ly/3rSM0tP
"It is stunning that @GOPLeader is posturing at the border in the ‘fight’ against migrant children fleeing violence when he couldn’t even stand up to the biggest threat to America - the violent white extremists who plundered his own Capitol." - @FrankSharry
"@GOPLeader and the Republican Party are playing politics rather than proposing solutions. They are desperate to stoke racialized fear and distract attention away from their own failures and abdication of duty." -@FrankSharry
"Now that America’s multiracial majority has spoken and elected him as President, it is time for his administration to deliver on the promise by redesignating Haiti for TPS." - @FrankSharry#TPSJustice
"Even Republican Senator Marco Rubio agrees that country-conditions have continued to decline in Haiti amid widespread political and civil unrest, extreme violence, corruption, ongoing instability and the continuing humanitarian crises." - @FrankSharry
JUST IN: Ahead of this week’s expected House votes on the “American Dream and Promise Act,” we are releasing two short reports on the politics of immigration specifically related to the Dream and Promise Act #WeAreHome bit.ly/30O8jVE
"This week we expect to see House floor votes on immigration reform and the politics could not be clearer." - @ZacharyAMueller
"There is a broad and unifying consensus among the American people, they want Congress to act to provide pathways to citizenship for our undocumented neighbors, family, and friends." - @ZacharyAMueller
House Minority Leader @GOPLeader's border trip agenda:
✅ distract from COVID package
✅ demonize vulnerable kids
✅ undermine support for popular immigration measures to be voted on Thursday bit.ly/38EMhbV
"@GOPLeader and the Republican Party are playing politics rather than proposing solutions. They don’t want better policies, they want more power." - @FrankSharry
"They hope that demonizing a bunch of vulnerable kids with dark skin seeking refuge in America will excite the GOP’s white grievance base and peel off some swing voters they lost to the Democrats." - @FrankSharry