The Biden administration has the power to bring deported people back to their homes, jobs, and lives in the United States. Deportation should not be a life sentence, or a death sentence!
Leader
Lynn Tramonte
Location
WITHHOLDING FOR PRIVACY REASONS Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Deportation is an EXTREME consequence for a paperwork problem. It separates people from their homes, families, jobs—lives they have built over years and even decades. Sometimes they are deported back to the danger they fled. #ReuniteUS is a campaign to disrupt this reality and bring people home!
The Biden administration does have the power to allow deported people to come home to the United States. It has the power, but it needs the will. That is where #ReuniteUS comes in.
With your support, we will turbocharge our publicity campaign and ensure that every household in Ohio understands how deportation is impacting our neighbors. We will mobilize grassroots and grasstops activists, educate policymakers about the stakes and the solutions, and establish a legal infrastructure to work on individual cases—all with the goal of changing federal policy so that our deported friends and loved ones can come home!
Deported people should not be dealing with a life sentence, or a death sentence. Support #ReuniteUS and help bring humanity and justice to immigration policy today!
With a small amount of grassroots financial support, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance created a WhatsApp group for deported people to connect with each other, worked with national policy experts to identify paths to return in existing law, and interviewed more than 250 individuals who form the heart of #ReuniteUS. Their stories have been told in Reuters, the Columbus Dispatch, and POLITICO Magazine.
But to reach decision makers within the Biden administration who could implement our policy proposals, we need to do more. With your support, we can establish the public education and legal infrastructure we need to make #ReuniteUS a reality for Ohioans dealing with deportation. Here are the next steps in our plan, starting as soon as we secure the funding to do it.
We commit to hiring immigrants and BIPOC for a majority of these roles, compensating them fairly, and providing stipends for #ReuniteUS members who participate in the publicity and advocacy strategies.
Judges at the Cleveland Immigration Court ordered the deportation of 20,000 Ohioans over the past ten years—destabilizing the lives of them AND their children, spouses, parents, friends, and communities. In recent years, deportation of long-term Ohio residents increased, bringing more pain into Ohio homes.
Instead of banishing people from their families forever, we can shift the paradigm on immigration and create laws that are functional, humane, and fair. Congress will need to enact many of those immigration solutions, but there are steps the Biden administration can take. Allowing deported people to return is one.
Helping families become whole again, allowing people to return to the lives they were leading before their worlds fell apart, would be an act of love, grace, and humanity. It would be a step toward healing for many, and we want you to be a part of making #ReuniteUS a reality!
