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PIC members are fighting for immigrant rights across the state. Here are the current ways to let your local elected leaders know they need to act now and stand with immigrant communities. 

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Governor Shapiro​​​​

Call Governor Shapiro at (717) 787-2500 or text (717-788-8990)

Governor Shapiro has the power to end Pennsylvania’s long-standing collaboration with ICE. We call on Governor Shapiro to use the full extent of his powers to end state collaboration with ICE and take pro-active action to protect immigrant communities. 

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Sample script: “Governor Shapiro, as a resident of Pennsylvania, I am calling on you to end state collaboration with ICE. Now is the time to use the full extent of your power to take administrative action, such as ending database access with ICE, ending collaboration between the State Department of Corrections and ICE, strengthening the state trooper ICE policy, protecting information in public benefit programs from ICE, prohibiting immigration enforcement arrests in state facilities, never lease a state facility to ICE, and allow state departments to demonstrate support for the drivers licenses for all campaigns (HB 1518). We need our Governor to stand up for immigrant communities."

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Clearfield County Commissioners

 

Pennsylvania now has 7 immigrant detention centers, with the Moshannon Detention Center not only the largest in Pennsylvania, but the largest in the entire northeast. In the four years this prison as been a detention cetner for immigrants, already two people have died in custody. That is why community members are calling on the Clearfield County Commissioners to end the contracts at the Moshannon Detention Center. They have the power to end their contract with ICE and their contract with the Geo Group NOW. 

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Montgomery County

 

PIC members and community leaders in MontCo are calling on the County Commissioners to pass a Welcoming County resolution. On May 15th, the county solicitor confirmed that the commissioners can issue a formal resolution.

 

Recent announced changes to internal policies are a step in the right direction, but a Welcoming County resolution ensures those policy changes are comprehensive, long-lasting and enforceable. The community deserves a policy that comprehensively prohibits all ICE collaboration, which means adding language that ensures the county is not collecting or storing any personal immigration information and by prohibiting any new contracts or agreements with ICE, like a 287g contract or leasing office space to ICE agents, for example.

 

A resolution would make these policies public and transparent, and ensure that there is a process in place for community input to future changes. The Commissioners have an opportunity to be a leader for dignity and human rights in our state, it's time to finish the job.​

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Dauphin County

 

Community leaders are calling on commissioners to pass a Welcoming County resolution and have begun to call on the prison board to end the enforcement of ICE detainers. There’s no reason our local tax dollars should be helping ICE rip people out of their communities. In August, Dauphin County prison collaborated with ICE by honoring an ICE detainer. They handed over a man to ICE who was then sent to Moshannon Detention Center. Five days later, that man was dead. It's time to end ICE collaboration in Dauphin County. 

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Sample script: “We support you in passing a Welcoming County resolution that ensures government employees are not communicating, data sharing, leasing to, or collaborating with ICE. Immigrant families are Dauphin families. Now is the time to end ICE collaboration.”

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Philadelphia

Call Mayor Parker at (215) 686-2181

Sample script: "Thank you Mayor Parker for standing up for immigrant communities by preserving Executive Order 5-16 and being ready to fight for it in court. The people of Philadelphia have your back, we want to make sure our city stays firm in not collaborating with ICE."

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Call Representative Boyle (202) 225-6111

Sample script: "Now is the time that Congressman Boyle stands firmly and publicly for immigrant rights, and demonstrates that with how he votes in Congress. I am disappointed that he has voted in favor of anti-immigrant bills this year, this is not in line with my values." 

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Congress

Contact your Member of Congress and Senators www.congress.gov/contact-us

An anti-immigrant bill, the DUIs Act (H.R. 875), has passed the House and will now be considered in the Senate. This bill would establish a life-time ban for anyone with a DUI record from adjusting their status and mandates detention. And it would affect green card holders as well, who would be placed in deportation proceedings and mandated to detention as well. ​Tell your Senators and member of Congress to vote no.

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