1. United States
2. Ill.
3. Letter

I am strongly urging you to stop the attacks against immigrant communities that are included in the House-passed budget reconciliation bill. These provisions aren’t there to help keep us safe; they are included to inflict pain and suffering on vulnerable communities. The version that passed the House excludes 4.5 million citizen or legal permanent resident children from receiving the Child Tax Credit if one parent does not have a Social Security number, cuts legal immigrants off from Medicare benefits that they’ve paid into for a decade or more, penalizes states for using their own money to provide health care for immigrants, demands thousands of dollars in new or drastically increased fees from immigrants seeking legal status or trying to reunite with unaccompanied children, and does this all while funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation machine. These provisions are cruel and harmful. As your constituent, I urge the Senate to reject any budget reconciliation package that cuts Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and SNAP, and that attacks immigrants and other vulnerable communities. Thank you for your hard work for our country. Keep up the good work!