TruthoutOctober 15, 2018
SNIPPET:
On September 13, Senate leadership released a budget bill without the billion dollars ICE had requested. That is $1 billion that won’t go toward caging our communities. Even in a deeply reactionary political climate, with an administration intent on punishing and oppressing the most vulnerable,
grassroots organizing worked.
But this is only a partial victory. The bigger struggle will be over the funding for 2019 and for the years to come. It is up to us to build on this momentum, and to demand that Congress not only refuse to increase funding,
but begin to defund ICE👹🦍 altogether.
Full article: https://truthout.org/articles/we-stopped-ice-getting-an-extra-billion-now-lets-defund-it-totally/