Our Priorities for Immigration

Our Priorities for Immigration

Abolish ICE and detention facilities, end detainment and family separation, protect migrant rights, and improve the path to citizenship.

Abolish ICE and detention facilities, end detainment and family separation, protect migrant rights, and improve the path to citizenship.

Abolish ICE and all immigrant detention centers.

  • Immediately ban the collaboration of ICE with state and local police and establish schools, hospitals, workplaces, community centers, churches, and other places as sanctuaries, out of the legal jurisdiction of ICE.

  • Immediately end the practice of family separation and the detainment of migrant and asylum-seeking individuals/families. Reunite and pay reparations to families separated by ICE. Publicly acknowledge the human rights abuses conducted by ICE and its collaborators on behalf of the U.S. government.

Protect the rights of migrants and provide more opportunities for citizenship, residency, and visas.

  • Include non-citizen residents in federal relief and social welfare programs, with equal access to emergency relief programs.

  • Eliminate all financial burdens in the citizenship and migration process.
  • Remove barriers to asylum seekers and refugees to make the process more efficient.
  • Provide quality legal services to undocumented people in detention and court hearings.

Abolish ICE and all immigrant detention centers.

  • Immediately ban the collaboration of ICE with state and local police and establish schools, hospitals, workplaces, community centers, churches, and other places as sanctuaries, out of the legal jurisdiction of ICE.

  • Immediately end the practice of family separation and the detainment of migrant and asylum-seeking individuals/families. Reunite and pay reparations to families separated by ICE. Publicly acknowledge the human rights abuses conducted by ICE and its collaborators on behalf of the U.S. government.

Protect the rights of migrants and provide more opportunities for citizenship, residency, and visas.

  • Include non-citizen residents in federal relief and social welfare programs, with equal access to emergency relief programs.

  • Eliminate all financial burdens in the citizenship and migration process.
  • Remove barriers to asylum seekers and refugees to make the process more efficient.
  • Provide quality legal services to undocumented people in detention and court hearings.

More Priorities

Criminal Justice Priorities

Abolish police and prisons, refocus the justice system from punishment toward treatment and justice, address the root causes of crime, and reconcile for the war on drugs.

Democracy Priorities

Rebalance government representation; provide and protect voting rights; and facilitate a true democracy with access, accountability and fairness.

Economic Priorities

Raise the minimum wage, protect and value workers, ensure individuals’ basic needs are met, and run the economy to fund equity and progress — not greed.

Education Priorities

Fully fund high-quality education systems, end the school-to-prison pipeline, ensure access to quality higher education and provide student loan debt relief.

Environmental Priorities

Pass sweeping reforms to increase environmental protections, fund sustainability, protect Native territory and ensure environmental justice.

Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice Priorities

Institute full reproductive rights and justice, enforce discrimination protections, protect women and femmes, and prioritize the urgent needs of LGBTQ+ people.

Healthcare Priorities

Establish free health care and affordable treatment for all, progress toward quality and equity, and invest in harm-reduction resources and practices.

Immigration Priorities

Abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and detention facilities, end detainment and family separation, protect migrant rights and improve the path to citizenship.

Infrastructure Priorities

Create meaningful employment, build for sustainability, protect and empower communities, attain internet access for all and increase accessibility.

Racial Justice Priorities

Reconcile for the racial injustices this country has committed, instill and protect systemic change, increase protections against discrimination and pay direct reparations.