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In her May 22 Letters, Heather Cox Richardson quoted American Immigration Council's Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the tax bill the House just passed. It "calls for $46.5 billion for barriers, including 701 miles of wall, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers and 629 miles of pedestrian barriers. It calls for $45 billion for adult and family detention, enough to detain at least 100,000 people at a time."
That bill still needs to pass the Senate. Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to stop it.
Thanks Carolea for your comment. It's a mind melting amount of billions that would go to detention, walls etc. And at the expense of education, the climate and numerous other important things. There's a link in this roundup to WOLA's breakdown on the border spending in the bill passed in the House, which I think is very helpful. And yes, everyone call your senators!
In her May 22 Letters, Heather Cox Richardson quoted American Immigration Council's Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the tax bill the House just passed. It "calls for $46.5 billion for barriers, including 701 miles of wall, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers and 629 miles of pedestrian barriers. It calls for $45 billion for adult and family detention, enough to detain at least 100,000 people at a time."
That bill still needs to pass the Senate. Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to stop it.
Thanks Carolea for your comment. It's a mind melting amount of billions that would go to detention, walls etc. And at the expense of education, the climate and numerous other important things. There's a link in this roundup to WOLA's breakdown on the border spending in the bill passed in the House, which I think is very helpful. And yes, everyone call your senators!
Here's the link >> https://www.wola.org/analysis/160-billion-to-detain-and-deport-congresss-reconciliation-bill-is-a-betrayal-of-priorities-and-will-harm-the-most-vulnerable/
Yeah, thanks for that. I'm following this happenings around this bill closely.
Y'all are already getting better at this!
Thanks Ellin! Appreciate the feeback :-)