February 15th, 2019
For Immediate Release: Friday, February 15, 2019 Washington, DC — The Defund Hate Coalition issued the following statement in response to President Trump declaring a national emergency to funnel billions more tax dollars to build more wall on the southern U.S. border: “Today, Trump declared a fraudulent national emergency for his border wall funding, confirming his […]
February 12th, 2019
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Washington, DC — Last night, details of an agreement by the conference committee emerged that show potential increases to the deportation forces of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including the building of 55 miles of border wall and a massive expansion of immigration […]
February 11th, 2019
For Immediate Release: Monday, February 11, 2019 Washington, DC — Amidst delicate negotiations in Congress over funding, ICE continues to rapidly increase the number of people it is locking up in its prison system, now standing at an astonishing 48,747 people per day, up more than 40 percent since Trump came into office. Members of Congress […]
February 1st, 2019
For Immediate Release: Friday, February 1, 2019 Washington, DC — This week, some Democratic members of the conference committee opened the door to further enable Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda with a proposal to increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget by $396 million and Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) budget by $278 million. The proposal comes as […]
January 25th, 2019
For Immediate Release: Friday, January 25, 2019 Washington, DC — Today, Trump ended his self-imposed government shutdown that caused immense harm to hundreds of thousands of federal workers, contractors, and people reliant on critical government programs. The move by Trump occured after mass mobilizations across the country called for the end of his game to hold […]
January 10th, 2019
For Immediate Release: Thursday, January 10, 2019 With thousands of federal workers on the cusp of a missed paycheck, President Trump staged a televised meeting today in McAllen, Texas, where he and members of his administration repeated the same hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric he has used since his candidacy to attempt to justify a federal government shutdown […]
January 8th, 2019
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Washington, DC — More than two weeks into Trump’s shutdown of the federal government, the president continues to hold Americans hostage to his anti-immigrant agenda. Congress must continue to reject the president’s irrational demands to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to pay for his border wall and the immigration […]
December 22nd, 2018
For Immediate Release: Saturday, December 22, 2018 Washington, DC — Last night, Trump and Republicans shut down the government over Trump’s hateful border wall. While Trump is holding the government hostage in order to continue his attacks on immigrant communities, we are calling on Democrats and Republicans in Congress to reject Trump’s demands and pass a […]
December 11th, 2018
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Washington, DC — As Democratic congressional leadership heads to the White House to negotiate Department of Homeland Security funding with President Trump, leading civil rights, faith, immigrant rights, and advocacy organizations called for a rejection of Trump’s border wall and demand cuts in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
September 10th, 2018
For Immediate Release: Monday, September 10, 2018 Coalition delivers over 60,000 signatures to stop appropriations anomaly Washington, DC — Immigrants, faith leaders and advocates from the #DefundHate coalition will gather in the offices of Senator Schumer and Senator Shelby to deliver over 60,000 signatures collected by CREDO, AFSC, and members of the coalition calling for Congress […]
