The immigrant ban and the increased deportations are just the first step. Yes, public interest lawyers have achieved impressive early victories in the courts, but the attacks on immigrants will only get worse.

The Trump administration is writing executive orders that will make the receipt of government entitlements by lawful immigrants a deportable offense. This means:

•    that if an immigrant lawfully in this country becomes sick while working and applies for government help to pay her doctor, she could be subject to being deported;

•    that if an immigrant mother applies for food stamps for her family because her minimum wage job does not pay enough to feed her family, she may be deported even if her children are citizens; and

•    that if an immigrant mother lawfully in this country applies for subsidized childcare so that she can work to support her children, she may be deported.

This CAN NOT STAND.

We join in solidarity with immigrants, low-wage workers, and all others who are forced to wonder whether they still have a place in Donald Trump’s America. We declare it is our America as well, and NCLEJ, as it has for more than 50 years, will continue to fight to advance the causes of economic, social, and racial justice. 

With your help, we can bring on board more lawyers, identify new cases where rights are being infringed, and send our attorneys to courtrooms across the country to defend those rights.  
  
We can work to stop these horrific policies that target immigrants for whom this country has opened the door and extended a hand, and we are asking you to join us in this fight.