Immigrant Rights Petition Signed by Over 40k To be Delivered to Senators
Today, April 3rd – Activists with United We Dream and Justice for Our Neighbors will stand with immigrants and refugees as we deliver this petition, currently signed by 40,000 people, to Illinois Senators Duckworth and Durbin to demand they reject Trump’s $3 billion budget plan to terrorize immigrants.
Trump’s budget to fund Executive Orders will pay for the following:
* $1.5 billion for the construction of new immigration detention center;
* $1.4 billion to go toward building a disastrous border wall;
* $314 million for the hiring of 500 additional border patrol agents and 1,000 ICE officials to break down doors, racially profile, fabricate charges and deport immigrants; and,
* Housing 45,000 people in detention camps every day.
Activists will gather at 12 noon, Monday, April 3 at the Intelligentsia Coffee Monadnock Coffeebar, 53 W. Jackson Boulevard, and then proceed to the senators’ offices.
Full text of the petition can be found here:
