Madeleine knows ours in a nation of immigrants. She supports a strong, legal immigration system and humane treatment for anyone seeking citizenship.
Madeleine believes we must take steps to strengthen our legal immigration system. This includes a path to citizenship for people who want to peacefully live and work in our country, asylum for those who need it, reinstating DACA to allow the Dreamers to be able to stay in our country without fear, and fighting against border policies that treat people inhumanely.
The past two years have been a deeply painful and difficult time for immigrant communities in Montgomery and Berks counties. Friends and family members grabbed off the street; innocent people terrorized at their local grocery stores by masked law enforcement carrying rifles and wearing full military gear; people afraid to go to doctors appointments, school, or even church.
Madeleine knows this is not normal. It’s unacceptable, and it’s unworthy of us as Americans — and as human beings.
As we’ve seen the surge of cruelty from this Administration, Congress must respond. Madeleine has recently introduced legislation that would ban the use of “shock gloves,” cosponsored the No Secret Police Act, which would require officers and agents of the Department of Homeland Security to clearly display identification and insignia when detaining or arresting individuals, and signed on to litigation defending the 14th Amendment from the administration’s unconstitutional attacks on birthright citizenship.
Additionally, we must end the administration’s cruel policies of family separation —- murdering people on our streets with impunity —- and placing people seeking legal asylum in inhumane living conditions at the border or elsewhere in our country. Asylum is a right — and we must afford everyone on our soil due process and fair trial.
We are a country of laws and of immigrants, and Madeleine knows that is our strength.