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Statement

Moms Leader Calls Trump Immigration Framework ‘An Insult, Not a Serious Proposal’

January 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 the immigration “framework” the White House released yesterday:

“The framework for immigration the White House released yesterday is not a serious proposal for sound immigration reform. Instead, it continues the shameful immigration policies this administration has tried to advance since President Trump took office. It uses DREAMers as pawns in a plan to advance a racist, anti-immigrant agenda that will cause grave and lasting harm to our families, economy, and our country.
 
“Congress should reject the new Trump plan out of hand and focus on a bipartisan solution to the problem President Trump created with his callous decision to end DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Every day since, more young immigrants have lost their status and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to live in fear that they will be separated from their families and sent away from the only homes they’ve ever known.
 
“DREAMers were brought to the United States as children and must be allowed to live, learn, work and contribute to our communities and our economy. They make our country stronger.
 
“The moms of America understand what President Trump and his nativist staff apparently do not -- that diversity is what makes our country strong and prosperous, not the opposite. DREAMers are not pawns to be used as a bargaining chip to advance an extreme anti-immigrant agenda – and they should not have to wait any longer for the stability and security they deserve. The White House framework is an insult that undermines our country’s values. Congress must reject it.”

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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.