We don’t need hyper-militarization of our border. We need direct investment into our communities that are still struggling to receive street lights, clean, running water, and are facing the existential threat of climate change. Our communities deserve to be able to access education, nutrition and healthcare without fear. If President Biden seeks to be the public servant that people need, he must take the time to sit down with underserved communities to hear where they stand.
Read moreBiden's Proposed Border Deal Dismantles Community Trust
Brownsville, TX -- When then-candidate Joe Biden was on the campaign trail, he promised a better tomorrow for immigration policy. He promised to not build another foot of border wall. He broke that promise after being elected in July, 2021, and broke that promise again with current border wall construction, waiving 26 laws he didn’t have to waive, in order to get his Biden Border Wall fast-tracked. And now, at President Biden’s behest, congress is presenting a supplemental funding package that will not only fund ongoing wars, but demands immigration trade-offs that seek to shut down humanitarian asylum, fund more prisons and police for undocu-communities and people on the move, (with over $20 billion allocated for border militarization alone), all to a shocking $118 billion dollars billed to taxpayers.
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