H.R.32 could potentially cut federal funding to schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, and transportation systems in more than two dozen states deemed "sanctuaries."
Read MoreTell our Congresspeople: thank you for voting NO on the Laken Riley Act, and please stop other Democrats from collaborating with anti-immigrant crackdowns.
Read MoreTell Mayor Lurie to refuse to assist ICE in harming our immigrant community.
Read MoreTell Governor Newsom: protect our immigrant communities and don’t give them up to ICE
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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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