There’s so much information out there, it’s hard to keep track without getting overwhelmed. This list is culled from a much longer list, which we will be publishing piece-meal over the next several days. It contains some of the key actions. Organizations accepting donations will be published in a separate post.
Legislative Advocacy
Call your members of Congress (find them at https://whoismyrepresentative.com) at 202-224-3121 with specific demands:
- Vote NO on funding for deportation (Note: Congressman Richie Neal recently voted FOR the Senate bill for “humanitarian” assistance that took away many of the protections for children in the HOUSE bill. Now the fight for funding will be continued through budget appropriations process in September.)
- Cancel raids and improve detention conditions
- Demand insepctions of detention centers.
- Release detained children and families
- Demand hearings on immigrant detention
- Support Merkley’s Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act (S.397)
- Support Harris’s Families NOT Facilities Act (S. 388)
Local Initiatives (Western Mass.): Pioneer Valley Workers Center: https://pvworkerscenter.org
- MA Driver’s License Campaign—pass legislation that would allow undocumented people to obtain drivers’ licenses.
- Safe Communities Act
- Ride Shares and Court Accompaniment
- Sponsor Immigrant Families
Boycott
- Divest from private prisons http://www.nnirr.org/drupal/prisondivestment
- Divest from and pressure companies who are indirectly profiting off migrant detention centers: https://wearyourvoicemag.com/news-politics/companies-profit-migrants-detention
Protest/Visibility
- Witnessing at Homestead:
- Lights for Liberty
- Write Letters to the Editor and/or Op-Eds
- Create a local protest
- Investigate joining other national protesting efforts like Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley, New Hampshire Walk for Immigration Justice