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Take Action: No Anti-Immigrant Amendments to Inflation Reduction Act
Posted on Aug 01 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act will come up for votes in the Senate, and then in the House, possibly as soon as the first week of August. This is the pared-down version of Build Back Better. Just before the final vote, hundreds of amendments will be proposed in what is sometimes called a vote-a-rama. This is a final effort to insert provisions that otherwise would have no chance of approval, including anti-immigrant amendments.
Call your Senators. Call your Congressional Representative. Tell them to VOTE NO against any anti-immigrant amendments presented for this bill.
Among the anti-immigrant amendments that are likely to be proposed are:
- Ending Asylum at the Border by extending Title 42 expulsions. This would violate the administration’s commitment to providing a fair asylum system. Making Title 42’s rescission contingent on the termination of the COVID-19 emergency declaration is a ploy to keep asylum-seekers out. This racist policy endangers refugees, violates immigrants’ right to seek asylum and refuge, and accelerates anti-immigrant violence and rhetoric. Title 42, and deterrence-based policies like it, make both asylum-seekers and the border less safe.
- Harming Immigrants’ Health, Economic Well-Being, or Education. Keeping otherwise eligible families from accessing critical health programs, using economic supports, or pursuing their educational and employment goals undermines the health care goals of the Inflation Reduction Act.
- Further Bloating Enforcement or Militarizing the Border. Deterrence-based enforcement and continued surveillance and abuse, both at the border and throughout the interior, should not and cannot be inserted into the Inflation Reduction Act. This includes increased and unnecessary funding to interior enforcement, border enforcement, and detention as well as any punishment for states and localities who prioritize public safety by separating local government, including law enforcement, from federal immigration enforcement.
Call your Senators. Call your Congressional Representative. Tell them to VOTE NO against any anti-immigrant amendments presented for this bill.