Deporting Women and Children First

House Plan to Pass Anti-Children, Anti-Family, and Anti-Asylum H.R. 9773 Is Abdication of Congress’ Commitment to Freedom.

Over 100 national, state, and local groups call on Congress to uniformly reject HR 9773

After writing a historic blank check to ICE and Border Patrol to further assault our communities, the Trump administration’s allies in Congress are eyeing their next target: children and people fleeing for their lives. The House Judiciary Committee is moving to mark up a new version of H.R.2, a bill anti-immigrant members of Congress first introduced in 2023 to spread fear of a “mass invasion” by immigrants, pit American citizens against their immigrant neighbors, and scapegoat them for the nation’s problems. If passed, this bill would codify the most extreme anti-asylum and anti-children policies in modern American history.

While wrongly touted as a “border security” bill, HR 9773 would have disastrous consequences for people who live here. The bill creates arbitrary penalties to criminalize longtime community members who will suddenly face deportation, when combined with the recent policy aimed at severely restricting the ability for people to gain permanent status in the United States. This will lead to families being separated, chaos in our work force, and an expansion of immigration detention and deportation for longtime residents, including those pushed out of status due to U.S. bureaucratic delays.