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Statement

Bigotry Prevailed, But We Won’t Give Up

June 26, 2018
Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, on today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Hawaii.

“The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this morning in Trump v. Hawaii is deeply disturbing. It will have an immediate and chilling impact on Americans who will not be able to reunite with loved ones, and it will mean patients go without life-saving health care and young people go without education.

“We are also profoundly concerned that this decision will intensify the bigotry, hatred, and specifically islamophobia that President Trump so often promotes.

“In upholding the Trump administration’s third attempt at a ban on Muslims seeking asylum, our highest Court has undermined our Constitution’s protections against discrimination based on religion and allowed bigotry to prevail. Five justices bowed to a President who time and again exhibits deep and appalling racism.

“This is not the first time the Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that undermines our country’s values; in the past it has ruled in favor of slavery and permitted Japanese Americans to be forced into concentration camps. Those rulings were eventually reversed and this one must be too.

“MomsRising and its members will continue to fight bigotry and discrimination in all their forms. Just as we are fighting night and day for asylum-seeking families that have been separated, we will fight back against politicians who advance bigotry and judicial appointees who will not protect our country’s values. Today’s decision must not stand.”

NOTE: MomsRising can connect journalists with families that will be impacted by today Supreme Court decision, upon request.

 

 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.