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ident and the Republican leadership and a project 25 tell you you have to do. Who would you have been in the 1930s and 40s? I'm terrified to know the ans re being broken -- or they would have been arrested when they appeared in immigration court for their legal hearings. Our immigration laws changed (as will mean terrible, terrible things. That tax money could be used for Medicaid, SNAP, a functioning immigration system--instead of terror, cruelty, and did international law) after WWII to rectify humanity's failures to take in Jewish people before and during the war. Our country, of course, has the trag ment. People with protected status are being sent back to places like Afghanistan and Iran. People are being arrested when they show up for their court cess of deportation -- sending people to prisons in random parts of the world -- and they are also rounding up LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. If these practices were t the Jewish community. No one wants this. I cannot sleep, thinking of the parallels with 1930s Germany, thinking of when my grandmother was no longer in place when my grandparents and infant mother came to the U.S. from a refugee camp, they either would not have been allowed in -- because asylum laws a wer. I beg you and your staff to read this article: ures birthright citizenship. He speaks of deporting citizens he doesn't like or doesn't want. So many communities are terrorized by these ideas, not leas ic legacy of sending the Jewish refugees who arrived on the Saint Louis back to their death. The recent budget increase to ICE -- a staggering amount -- I am contacting you not only as an Iowan and citizen but as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Current ICE practices are bypassing the legal pro hen will you stand up and stop it? This country needs you to stand up publicly and loudly for an end to this trajectory. Please stop doing what the Pres are loved. They are much more likely to be victims of crime than to be criminals. They deserve due process. We could be investing in our court system to That's not even deportation to a country of origin. Families are being torn apart. Sick children are being deported in the middle of their medical treat allowed to go to public school in her Polish town because Jews were cast as outsiders no matter their "legal" status. Things have already gone too far. W process asylum claims. We could have passed bipartisan immigration reform last year if Trump had not told congress not to pass it so he could use immigr dates -- the very legal process they're being painted as not following. Now President Trump is looking to ignore the constitutional amendment that ens ation as a campaign issue. Instead we are building inhumane camps, sending people -- some who are citizens -- to horrendous prisons all over the world. inhumanity that benefits no one. Undocumented immigrants play a vital role in our economy. They are neighbors, they are coworkers, they are people who -288573652