Today: Thank Democrats for standing strong against Trump's border wall shutdown

Call your Democratic senator and thank them for opposing Trump's hateful and wasteful border wall.

Dear MoveOn member,

It's official: We're now in the longest government shutdown in history.

Yet despite all the pressure an almost monthlong shutdown brings, not a single Democrat has indicated they would approve paying Donald Trump the ransom for his racist border wall.

We all want the government to reopen and to bring financial relief to over 800,000 federal workers and contractors, as well as their families and everyone using government services, but we can't allow a functioning government and employee wages to become bargaining chips every time Trump isn't getting his way.

Right now, we need to thank Democrats and independents and tell them to stay strong against Trump's hateful and wasteful border wall. Call your senator now at 844-765-2408. 

Here's an important message you can share with them: 

Thank you for staying strong against a hateful and wasteful border wall and not giving in to Trump's shutdown. We need to ensure the public—and the White House—understand the basic human rights that people seeking asylum have and that there is no security crisis at the border. We need to hold on to our principles of building a nation where everyone can thrive, not further demonize immigrants and militarize our border with a foolish wall, increased technology or more border agents.

Staying strong includes not ceding any ground to the Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and asylum-seekers by buying into the completely false notion of needing "increased border security" and Trump's manufactured "crisis."

We must focus on the human right, protected by international laws, to enter this country and apply for asylum and not get caught up in a debate about other ways we can militarize the border with increased technology or agents. And we must make sure that Democrats and independents—who do want to reopen the government—know that we are standing with them in this fight as the refuse to pay Trump's ransom.

Trump has been holding pay for 800,000 workers hostage to pay for his wall. Any money to appease him would now signal that the shutdown worked and enable him to use this strategy again, to terrorize immigrants and asylum seekers or to make other demands for his destructive and delusional agenda.

Thankfully, Democrats and Independents in Congress are not giving in, even under immense pressure. Call to thank Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand now for standing up to Trump's tantrum and tell them to focus on the rights of asylum seekers, not militarizing the border. Here is where to call: 844-765-2408.

Thanks for all you do.

–Emma, Corinne, Iram, Scott, and the rest of the team

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