Trump Plans to Launch New Raids to Round Up Families, Terrorize Children

‘Local officials across the country must push back against Trump’s fearmongering’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rafael Medina, [email protected], 202.869.0390

WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on Trump’s expected immigration raids:

“These ICE raids are part of this administration’s anti-immigrant agenda, motivated not by the rule of law, but by white supremacy. Trump the so-called business leader was more than willing to use and exploit undocumented workers. As a dictatorial and nativist politician, he continues to scapegoat and terrorize hard-working immigrants, along with their infants and children. This craven action may motivate his political base, but it does nothing to make us safer and only leaves migrants at further risk of abuse, disease, and death. People desperately fleeing violence must never be treated as political pawns – and local officials across the country must do everything they can to push back against Trump’s fearmongering.”

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For more information on The Leadership Conference and its member organizations, visit www.civilrights.org.