Trump's ominous threat

Last night, Donald Trump made an ominous threat on Twitter. Next week, he said, ICE will begin mass arrests and removals of "millions" of undocumented immigrants in cities around the country—a fearmongering and race-baiting lie he hopes will reinvigorate his supporters in advance of his official 2020 campaign kickoff.

Dear MoveOn member,

Last night, Donald Trump made an ominous threat on Twitter. Next week, he said, ICE will begin mass arrests and removals of "millions" of undocumented immigrants in cities around the country—a fearmongering and race-baiting lie he hopes will reinvigorate his supporters in advance of his official 2020 campaign kickoff.¹

But even though this particular threat is currently unfounded, Trump and his racist, xenophobic administration—led by Stephen Miller—are working harder than ever to detain immigrants and asylum seekers, separate families, and expand the despicable, inhumane immigration policies that have defined the administration.²

We cannot sit back and allow this to continue.

Eddie: will you rush a contribution of $3 right now to help MoveOn fight to stop a new wave of family separations and combat Trump's horrific immigration plans?

Trump's threat to deport "millions" of immigrants comes hot on the heels of news reports last week from historians and experts on concentration camps coming forward to state clearly and forcefully that the so-called "detention centers" being used to house immigrants—many of them children—are concentration camps.³

This is what Donald Trump and his administration have created. Concentration camps housing separated families, asylum seekers who entered the country legally in accordance with international law, and even infants as young as 4 months old who have been ripped from the arms of their parents.⁴ Concentration camps where at least 24 adults and five children have died since 2017.^5,6

Your tax dollars are paying for these camps, Eddie. And they will pay for the blitz operation to arrest millions more if Trump has his way.

We have to meet this new outrage with action. With your help we will:

• Flood Congress with phone calls demanding a stop to this policy. Last year hundreds of thousands of constituents jammed the phone lines in Congress demanding an end to family separation. We need to ramp up this constituent pressure once again.
• Work with partners on the ground to assist impacted communities. Immigrants and asylum seekers are impacted by these policies every day and suffering on the ground at the border and in cities across the country. We will work with partner groups to continue providing support and uplifting stories from these communities.
• Spin up large-scale grassroots actions that can be deployed if needed. If Trump begins massive interior enforcement actions or expands his family separation policy, we need to be ready to take to the streets to demand action immediately.

Will you chip in $3 right now to help us ramp up this extensive undertaking to stop family separation 2.0?

June 30 will mark the one-year anniversary of the Families Belong Together rallies, where hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members and our allies came out in cities across the country to demand the Trump administration put a stop to the horrific family separation policy.

Those actions worked. Trump and his cronies saw the massive wave of grassroots pressure opposed to the policy, and it forced them to end it. But now, Trump, Stephen Miller, and their racist, xenophobic allies think they can start up these policies again without the same level of outrage.

We have to prove them wrong. We cannot allow more babies to be ripped from the arms of their parents. We cannot allow more children to come home from school to find out that their parents have been deported. And we cannot allow America to run concentration camps.

Please Eddie, click here right now to chip in $3 to help us put a stop to this.

Thanks for all you do.

–Emma, Nick, Isbah, Manny, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removals of 'millions of illegal aliens' starting next week," The Washington Post, June 17, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/67374?t=5&akid=237082%2E10220574%2EOFIoPf

2. "Trump says US will begin deporting millions," AP, June 18, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/67375?t=7&akid=237082%2E10220574%2EOFIoPf

3. "An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border," Esquire, June 13, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/67376?t=9&akid=237082%2E10220574%2EOFIoPf

4. "The Youngest Known Child Separated From His Family at the U.S. Border Under Trump," The New York Times, June 14, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/67377?t=11&akid=237082%2E10220574%2EOFIoPf

5. "24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration," NBC News, June 9, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/67378?t=13&akid=237082%2E10220574%2EOFIoPf

6. "The crisis of children dying in custody at the border, explained," Vox, May 22, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/67379?t=15&akid=237082%2E10220574%2EOFIoPf

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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