Posts tagged Immigration
Tell Mayor Lurie: House Samara, a 7‑Year‑Old With Serious Medical Needs

Samara is a 7‑year‑old San Franciscan with serious medical needs who has spent the past two years living in shelters with her family. After undergoing multiple surgeries this month, she is preparing to leave the hospital—but the City has told her parents they don’t qualify for housing assistance because, according to a computer system, they are “not homeless enough.”

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Tell Congress to Stop Detention Expansion at FCI Dublin

As a facility on federal land, congressional opposition is crucial to ensure FCI Dublin doesn’t reopen as an ICE detention center. Organizers maintain it’s easier to shut down a detention center before it opens so it’s urgent to ACT NOW.

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Tell Mayor Lurie and BoS: End Child Homelessness in San Francisco

San Francisco has reinstated a controversial 90-day policy limiting family stays in homeless shelters, which has sparked widespread concern among immigrant families and advocates. Demand that Mayor Lurie overturn the 90-day Homeless Shelter Eviction policy. 

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Tell Mayor Lurie and BoS: We Want a People's Budget! NEED NOT GREED! DROP THE LAWSUITS!

The Mayor has proposed devastating budget cuts to community services. Tell the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors and Uber/Lyft/AirBnB: SAVE OUR CITY’S BUDGET! NEED NOT GREED! DROP THE LAWSUITS!  

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Tell Mayor Lurie and BoS: Keep Families Housed (and Spread the Word!)

San Francisco has reinstated a controversial 90-day policy limiting family stays in homeless shelters, which has sparked widespread concern among immigrant families and advocates. Demand AGAIN that Mayor Lurie overturn the 90-day Homeless Shelter Eviction policy … and SPREAD THE WORD!

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Ask your MoCs to #DefundHate!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Congress can use this to check immigration enforcement authorities by cutting off the flow of money to programs that mistreat people coming to the United States.

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Ask your MoCs to wield the Power of the Purse!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.

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