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Tell Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin:
"The Republican immigration agenda is a dangerous, racist platform that demonizes and attacks immigrant communities. Don't compromise with extremists like Ted Cruz."
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It's almost unbelievable. Trump's extremist immigration policies are ripping families apart. Congressional Republicans are refusing to act. And now two senior Democrats are negotiating with one of the most extreme Republicans in the Senate for a compromise on immigration.
News broke this week that Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin are working with Sen. Ted Cruz to codify Trump's sham executive order that substituted indefinite family detention for family separation.1
The Republican immigration agenda is a dangerous, racist platform that demonizes and attacks immigrant communities. There is no reason for Democrats to help Republicans make it legislative reality. We have to raise our voices now.
Cruz is locked in a tight race for his Texas Senate seat. He defended family separation until it seemed politically unwise to do so.2 Then he offered a bill that he claimed would end family separation but would actually grant Trump a wishlist of immigration priorities without doing anything to block the policy that created the family separation crisis – Attorney General Jeff Sessions' "zero tolerance" policy of criminally charging all undocumented immigrants.3
It is appalling that Sens. Feinstein and Durbin want to negotiate with Cruz. Trump and his Republican Party's inhumane policies and racist attacks are an affront to our democracy. They not only worsen the country's crisis of mass incarceration and sanction state violence against people and children of color, but also empower agencies that are terrorizing immigrant communities. If Democrats negotiate and compromise with that bigotry, they legitimize and normalize it. We have to make sure they don't.
Instead of decriminalizing and reuniting immigrant families, Trump's recent executive order replaced ripping families apart with indefinitely jailing them.4 Now, the administration is using the shift from family separation to family detention as yet another cruel bargaining chip, with officials threatening to separate families again if Congress does not give them millions to expand detention centers.5
Those of us who care about our immigrant family members, neighbors and friends have a responsibility to make sure that Democrats refuse to cave to this vile political hostage-taking. If Sens. Feinstein and Durbin are at the negotiating table with Ted Cruz, we have to make sure they hear us, loud and clear, right now. Can you add your name today?
Click the link below to tell Sens. Feinstein, Durbin and all congressional Democrats: No compromises with Republican extremism on immigration:
- Heidi Hess, CREDO Action
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Tell Democrats: No immigration compromise with Republican extremists
Thursday, March 1, 2018
TAKE ACTION PROTECT WORKERS AND CHILDREN FROM PESTICIDES
The farmworkers who help bring fresh fruit and produce to our tables and the people who apply pesticides in our homes and communities aren’t protected by the same safety standards that most workers in the U.S. enjoy. Farmworkers and pesticide applicators face repeated exposure to a range of toxic chemicals.
So when the Environmental Protection Agency announced an updated set of basic life-saving rules in 2015 and 2017, dozens of farmworker, labor, public health and environmental organizations rejoiced. But now the Trump administration has announced plans to reverse these crucial protections against pesticide exposure and poisonings.
From setting a minimum age of 18 for workers who mix, load and apply pesticides; to improving the content and quality of worker safety trainings; to providing farmworkers with anti-retaliation protections and the right to request pesticide-application information, these basic safety standards were put in place to protect the 2.5 million farmworkers in the U.S. who experience 10,000-20,000 reported pesticide poisonings per year, and approximately one million pesticide applicators.
Don’t let the Trump administration put farmworkers, pesticide handlers, their families and the broader public at risk. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard and the Certification of Pesticide Applicators Rule.
- Earth Justice
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to weaken rules that would prevent children from applying toxic pesticides and protect all of us from dangerous chemicals found in agricultural, commercial and residential settings. By tampering with the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard and its sister set of safety standards, the Certification of Pesticide Applicators Rule, Pruitt is putting farmworkers, pesticide handlers, their families and the entire public at risk.
Pesticides are applied on our food and in, on or around our homes, schools, hospitals and workplaces. If the people who handle pesticides aren't adequately trained or don't understand the dangers of the chemicals they're handling, the health and safety of workers, communities and all consumers can be at risk. Pesticide misuse has led to worker poisonings and serious harm for hundreds of homeowners and their families, and resulted in the tragic deaths of children.
With the lives of children and families across the country at stake, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM), along with senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), are leading an effort to urge the EPA to preserve these protections by keeping the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard rule and Certification of Pesticide Applicators rule in place.
As your constituent, I urge you to join them in signing the “Dear Colleague” letter opposing the EPA's attacks on the child and worker protection rules.
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