Protect Dreamers! Call your rep to block the Laken Riley bill with this script and free teleprompter
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“The Laken Riley bill mandates federal detention without bail. Call your rep to protect Dreamers.
The Immigration Hub anticipates the House may take up the Senate-passed version of Laken Riley as early as Wednesday, January 22nd. Light up the phone lines and flood the email inboxes of House members. HERE is the target list of the 49 House Dems who voted for the bill. We need to decrease that number dramatically, this is no message vote, the only thing between this bill and Trump signing it into law is their vote.
- Blast your vote rec to the House, see target list HERE template HERE
- Issue press releases condemning today’s cloture vote and call on the House to oppose
- Keep organizing in-district calls and elevating local validators
- Call on House Leadership to whip against this bill and urge champions to vocally oppose the bill: Jeffries (Dem Leader), Clark (Whip), Aguilar (Caucus Chair), Raskin (HJC), Jayapal (Imm HJC), Espaillat (CHC), Yvette Clark (CBC), Meng (CAPAC), Casar (CPC)
… for migrants who are merely arrested for any theft-related crimes, with no provision to free them if the charges are later dropped. The bill applies to many immigrants who are authorized to be here, including Dreamers and those with temporary protected status. The legislation contains no exemption for minors.” — NY Times
Call your rep with this script and free teleprompter
Follow the money to see how the Laken Riley bill is great for private prisons and corporations that exploit prison labor.
Who benefits from more prisoners? Where are they locked up? Who makes money from private prisons?
Can prisoners be forced to work for slave wages? Which corporations profit by using prison labor?
How much to private prison operators and corporations donate to Republicans?
How are prisoners mistreated and their human rights violated?
What does this have to do with Schindler’s List?
Follow the money made by prison profiteers from mass deportations with this relationship map.
Schindler’s List?
Desperate people forced to work in prisons. Treated to cruel conditions. Exploited by corporate interests. Sound familiar? Watch the movie.
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Schindler’s List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the historical novel Schindler’s Ark. In Kraków during World War II, the Nazis force local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto where they were forced to work. — Wikipedia
“Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it” — George Santayana
Corporate slavery
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” In short, slavery is illegal, except when someone is convicted of a crime. That penal labor loophole has gone on to impact millions of prisoners in the last 155 years. — Market Realist
Companies that use prison labor
More than 4,1000 companies in the U.S. profit from mass incarceration. Many of these are prisons themselves, but some are companies who rely on penal labor to manufacture goods or provide services. Around 63,000 prisoners produce goods for external sale. — Market Realist
- Verizon uses inmates to provide telecommunication services.
- Fidelity Investments uses some held assets to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that promotes inmate work.
- Kmart and JCPenney use inmate labor in Tennessee to make denim products.
- Walmart uses prison labor to clean barcodes so products can be resold.
- Some cheese and fish from Whole Foods comes from prison labor.
- Circuit boards from IBM come from Texas prisoners.
- Wendy’s and McDonald’s use prison labor to process beef for their food products.
Companies that profit from Prison Labor
Mass detentions and deportations
“Trump’s allies have been preparing for mass detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants, and the stock prices of private prison companies GEO Group and CoreCivic have soared since Trump’s election. Steven T. Dennis of Bloomberg reported that on an earnings call today, GEO chief executive officer Brian Evans told investors that filling currently empty beds could bring in $400 million a year and that the company can scale up its current surveillance, monitoring, and transportation programs to handle millions of immigrants. “This is to us an unprecedented opportunity,” he said.
But deporting up to 20 million people will be a logistical nightmare and is projected to cost from $88 billion to $315 billion a year.” — Heather Cox Richardson
TakeAway: Call your rep to demand they protect Dreamers and block the Laken Riley bill.
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