Call Sens. Flake and Kyl: Block Trump's CFPB nominee

Kathy Kraninger, Trump's nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is expected to face a confirmation vote in the Senate as soon as this week. Call Sens. Flake and Kyl now and urge them to vote no on Kraninger's confirmation. Click below for a sample script and the number to call:

The Senate is expected to vote this week to confirm Kathy Kraninger, Trump's nominee to lead the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau.1 Kraninger currently works as a deputy in the Office of Management and Budget, overseeing and providing policy advice to the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. That places her right in the thick of the Trump administration's decision to separate children from their parents.2 As Sen. Elizabeth Warren pointed out in Kraninger's confirmation hearing over the summer, Kraninger's role in separating families is a "moral stain" that will follow her the rest of her life. This week's vote follows a vote in the Senate Banking Committee in August in which every single Republican Senator voted in Kraninger's favor.3 To stop Kraninger and protect the CFPB, we need a few Republicans to join Democrats in opposition. Can you make a call to Sens. Flake and Kyl now? Call Sens. Flake and Kyl: Block Trump's CFPB nominee Kathy Kraninger. Click here for a simple script and the number to call. Even before her role in Trump's family separation policy became public, Kraninger's nomination to lead the CFPB was already controversial: She has no relevant experience and appears to be a stalking horse to allow current CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney, her boss at OMB, to continue his campaign of destruction at the agency.4 Earlier this year, as the Trump administration was preparing to announce the family separation policy, Kraninger and her staff met with key officials at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and DHS, indicating that she played a role in planning for the policy's implementation. Her staff even met with an executive from the GEO Group, one of the private prison operators making huge profits as a result of Trump's cruel immigration policies.5 No one should get a promotion after helping tear children away from their parents. We need to stop Kraninger's nomination. Call Sens. Flake and Kyl: Block Trump's CFPB nominee Kathy Kraninger. Click here for a simple script and the number to call. Kraninger has no record of sticking up for consumers. In fact, she has no relevant experience at all in finance, regulation, banking or even leading an important institution like the CFPB.6 Sadly, her lack of qualifications may be the exact reason Trump nominated her. Predatory financial interests clearly see something about Kraninger they like, and Trump has launched a crusade to destroy the consumer watchdog from within. We need to act fast before the Republican-controlled Senate rubber stamps Kraninger's confirmation, as they have with so many unqualified Trump nominees in the past 18 months. Call Sens. Flake and Kyl: Block Trump's CFPB nominee Kathy Kraninger. Click the link below for a simple script and the number to call: https://act.credoaction.com/call/kraninger_senate_calls_r_2/?t=8&akid=30734%2E3130208%2EBewhkw - Josh Nelson, CREDO Action Click below for a sample script and the number to call: References: Ben Lane, "Housing industry pushes Senate to confirm Kathy Kraninger as next CFPB director," HousingWire, Nov. 13, 2018. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, "Letter to Kathy Kraninger," June 18, 2018. Jim Puzzanghera, "Senate committee narrowly confirms Kathy Kraninger to head CFPB," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 23, 2018. David Lazarus, "Trump's pick for consumer agency chief has never stood up for consumers," Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2018. Emily Stewart, "Democrats want answers on CFPB nominee’s involvement in family separation," Vox, June 27, 2018. Lazarus, "Trump's pick for consumer agency chief has never stood up for consumers."

Tell JPMorgan Chase: Stop financing private prisons and immigrant detention centers

Petition to all major banks that finance or profit from private prisons and immigrant detention, including JPMorgan Chase, reads: “Stop financing corporations like CoreCivic and The Geo Group that build and manage private prisons and immigrant detention centers and make enormous profits from the suffering of immigrants and communities of color." Add your name:

Who wins when the Trump regime fails to reunite families it tore apart at the border? Banks like JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Chase is one of the biggest investors in CoreCivic and The Geo Group, private prison corporations that build and manage hundreds of horrific immigrant detention centers across the country.1 Trump's mass incarceration and deportation agenda is a boon for their business and the banks that finance them stand to make millions from the pain of immigrant communities. To end Trump's war on immigrants, we must expose and hold accountable the financial institutions that are enabling and profiting from his cruel and racist regime. Speak out now to demand that JPMorgan Chase stop financing Trump's hate. Tell JPMorgan Chase and all major banks: Stop financing private prison and immigrant detention corporations. Click here to sign the petition. Public pressure grows stronger by the day to free and reunite the families Trump separated at the border and imprisoned in inhumane detention facilities. But his cruel administration could not care less. It just missed its second court-imposed deadline to reunite the more than 2,500 children it ripped away from families at the border, and has no plans to roll back the racist policies that created this crisis in the first place.2 Instead, Trump and his craven lapdogs in Congress are trying to ramp up these attacks. ICE locked up more than 30,000 undocumented immigrants a day in inhumane and overcrowded detention centers in 2016.3 Trump’s hateful administration just increased ICE’s incarceration quota to 80,000 immigrants a day and is planning to expand the department’s workforce and infrastructure to reach that daily goal.4 Congressional Republicans are working hard to make this xenophobic nightmare a reality. They just advanced dangerous bills in both chambers of Congress that would expand ICE and CBP and hand Trump tens of millions of dollars to build his southern border wall and more ICE run prisons.5,6 If Trump and his heartless party succeed at passing these bills, private prison corporations, and the banks that finance, them will make huge profits. Immigrants will suffer even more. Private prison corporations CoreCivic and The Geo Group are notorious for exploiting immigrant detainees for cheap labor and forcing them to live in inhumane conditions.7 Nine detainees have filed a class-action lawsuit against The Geo Group for allegedly forcing more than 50,000 immigrants imprisoned in its detention centers to work for less than one dollar a day.8 The U.S. Bureau of Prisons canceled its contract with a CoreCivic prison in New Mexico after reports of its cruel treatment of sick inmates gained national attention.9 Now, ICE has contracted with the same prison to detain immigrants, without demanding any changes to the institution’s practices. That is unacceptable. Trump and Republicans’ immigration crackdown means more immigrant arrests, more taxpayer funded corrupt detention facilities and more business for morally bankrupt private prison corporations. We must do everything we can to stop their xenophobic agenda. If we join together now and use our power as consumers and customers to force big banks to get out of the mass incarceration and deportation business, we can block Trump and Republicans' racist plans. That's why we're teaming up with our friends at Make the Road New York, Mom’s Rising, Presente and other members of the Families Belong Together Corporate Accountability Coalition to make sure JPMorgan Chase feels the full force of our resistance. Will you add your name now? Tell JPMorgan Chase and all major banks: Stop financing private prison and immigrant detention corporations. Click the link below to sign the petition. https://act.credoaction.com/sign/jpmc_backersofhate_2018?t=7&akid=29488%2E3130208%2Ej02KNm - Nicole Regalado, CREDO Action Add your name: References: Katie Lobosco, "Immigrant advocates attack banks for financing private prisons," CNN, July 26, 2018. Patrick Greenfield, "Family separation: hundreds of migrant children still not reunited with families in US," The Guardian, July 26, 2018. Madison Pauly, "The Private Prison Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Trump’s Deportation Plans," Mother Jones, Feb, 21, 2017. Ibid. Niv Elis, "House panel advances homeland security bill with $5 billion in border wall funding," The Hill, July 25, 2018. Ali Rogin, John Parkinson and Elizabeth Brown-Kaiser, "Government shutdown looms with impasse over border wall," ABC News, July 30, 2018. Madison Pauly, "How a Private Prison Company Used Detained Immigrants for Free Labor," Mother Jones, April 3, 2017. Ibid. Pauly, "The Private Prison Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Trump’s Deportation Plans."

Tell Congress stop privatizing incarceration of immigrant families and asylum seekers

Privatized detention and incarceration centers are hell on earth--and they are big business for private companies. Ending private detention is a way to start ending detention - period.

Between 2014 and 2018, the Office of Refugee Resettlement paid private companies $3.4 billion to house migrant children. Further, 44 percent of those companies face serious, well documented reports and allegations of child maltreatment.

In these centers children suffer from:

• Forced administration of psychotropic drugs
• Jail-like conditions with armed officers
• Physical abuse, sexual abuse and even death

Sign this petition to demand Congress end privatizing detention and incarceration now!

Another $2 billion is spent on adults facilities--more of which are being built to support Trump’s white nationalist immigration policy. These privatized detention centers are big money makers for the industry. And Trump has benefited from these industries, receiving monetary donations from industry CEOs. This is sickening and must end now.

 
Sign this petition to demand that Congress stop privatizing detention and incarceration centers that abuse thousands of immigrant children and families!

Message to Congress:

We demand that you end privatization of detention and incarceration of immigrant families and asylum seekers. These private contracts have led to documented cases of physical, psychological, and sexual abuses of children and families. Children have died in these facilities. End the suffering and injustices of these cruel companies. Stop privatizing detention of immigrant families now.

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• Brave New Films
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• Rashida Tlaib for Congress
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