Hi there, my name is Tanya Broder, and I am a Senior Counsel at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). This year marks my 29th anniversary at NILC. For almost three decades, I’ve witnessed landmark victories in courts and remarkable progress in state legislatures. We’ve also experienced some heartbreaking setbacks. Throughout this time, immigrant communities have come together to resist and to demand justice. In all these years, I’ve never seen a moment as urgent and dangerous as now. Congress allocated billions of dollars to supercharge Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Federal agents are abducting people from the streets, detaining them in inhumane conditions, and threatening to send them to countries they’ve never known. Congress slashed funding for nutrition, health care, and tax credits, and federal agencies eviscerated longstanding privacy protections. As a result, many families now fear going to the doctor, taking their kids to school, and in some cases, leaving home at all. But in the face of these attacks, communities have fought back. California, Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, and other states enacted laws that strengthen privacy, safeguard constitutional rights, and limit their entanglement with federal immigration enforcement. Immigrants and advocates across the country defended access to health care, education, and other essential services. And advocates, states, and localities filed litigation to challenge the administration’s abuses. Despite the gravity of this moment, I believe in our collective power. The fight for immigrant justice is more urgent than ever, and I hope you will stand with us, friend. Will you donate $29 — or any amount — to help defend the rights of immigrant communities across the country?
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