President Biden commits to using every available tool - including reconciliation - to deliver path to citizenship bills bit.ly/2QHXp1J#WeAreHome
"President Biden’s commitment to legalize millions through whatever means available - including through budget reconciliation - significantly increases the chances of achieving a legislative breakthrough this year." - @FrankSharry
"Take it from those who have shed blood for bipartisanship in the past: Republicans will feign bipartisanship, first to slow things down, and second, to justify their opposition to the legislation Democrats move forward." - @FrankSharry
"If they [Republicans] produced zero votes for COVID relief, how many votes do you think they’ll produce for citizenship bills?" - @FrankSharry
"President Biden and the Democrats should be prepared to blow past bad faith GOP tactics and use every tool and every ounce of power to deliver long overdue breakthroughs. Failure is not an option. Excuses won’t be sufficient." - @FrankSharry
"Currently, most undocumented workers are considered ‘essential’ and ‘deportable.’ Undocumented workers risked, and in many cases, lost their lives helping Americans survive the pandemic." - @FrankSharry
"@POTUS, this is the year, now is the time, the power is in your hands. Let’s join together to get this done." - @FrankSharry
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.@SergGonzales: "We must remember that undocumented people were behind keeping the lights on during the darkest days of the pandemic." #WeAreHome
.@GreisaMartinez: "The Biden administration has the opportunity to boldly right this wrong... He and Democrats must use all of their power and every tool at their disposal to deliver." #WeAreHome
[1/4] Every adult in the U.S. is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination, regardless of immigration status. Check out this video for more information:
[2/4] On February 1, DHS released a statement: “DHS and its Federal government partners fully support equal access to the COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine distribution sites for undocumented immigrants”
[3/4] 69% of undocumented immigrants are essential workers who need the vaccine for their day to day safety. We should prioritize the health and safety of all, regardless of immigration status. bit.ly/3grVaug
A new @CNN op-ed, former HUD Secretary and San Antonio Mayor @JulianCastro blasts the GOP for their fear mongering, falsehoods, and politicization of the lives of children from Central America who are seeking asylum. bit.ly/3e0e2h9
"We need to build a forward-looking, modern immigration system rather than revert to the depravity and failure of the Trump years." - @douglasrivlin
"We can’t take seriously Republicans who want only to play politics, demonize immigrants and put vulnerable kids back into the dangerous situations they fled." - @douglasrivlin
"When Carlson worries about immigrants from the third world, he is talking about Hispanic, Asian and Black people who he worries will outnumber 'current' voters. Current voters, in this formulation, are the white people who make up the majority of the American electorate."
"And tremendous energy is being exerted not only by white supremacists in the general population, but also Republican office holders, to attack immigrants, curtail immigration, disenfranchise Black and brown voters and assail abortion rights."
Bipartisan support for Haiti TPS redesignation grows amid the Biden Administration’s deafening silence bit.ly/3wI1BPB
"There is now bipartisan support in the House & Senate, not to mention the growing voices on the ground calling, no, screaming, for the Biden Administration to redesignate Haiti for TPS. The growing support should be a wakeup call for the President and his team." - @douglasrivlin
"Almost daily, deportation flights are leaving the U.S. bound for Haiti and it is well past time for this Administration to deliver on its promise to the Haitian community already here living in the U.S.." - @douglasrivlin
Family separation was cruel and didn’t work: why Republican whitewashing of Trump’s real border record cannot go unchallenged bit.ly/3t0xPDm#FamiliesBelongTogether
"Family separation is one of the darkest chapters of any modern American presidency. They ripped kids from the arms of their parents, knowing full well that no tracking system was in place, and knowing full well that incalculable trauma would result." - @FrankSharry
"Hundreds of kids remain separated from their families. And now Republicans want us to believe that’s the right policy solution to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Central America. America is better than revisiting the moral stain of family separation." - @FrankSharry