Action Items for the Week

  • Contact Reps: Call your representatives about the Trump administration refusal to comply with a Supreme Court ruling and return Abrego Garcia, and ask that they work to halt all disappearances to El Salvador regardless of status.

  • Immigration: Continue following the cases of university students targeted by ICE. Here are the names I could find:

  • State Bills: Watch the progress of state bills in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, New Jersey and Indiana affecting public education for undocumented students (many violating the Plyler v Doe 1982 Supreme Court ruling). If you are in any of these states, contact your local representatives and ask them to oppose these bills.

  • Contact Reps: Write a letter to representatives asking them to protect educational services for students who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind. Use this template from Disability Rights Watch.

  • Contact Reps: Call your representatives to ask them to protect the Department of Education and oppose both the EO and any bills introduced to dismantle the agency (right now that’s HR 899 but Senator Mike Rounds says he will re-introduce this one soon).

  • Learning Opportunity: Learn everything you can about the Dept of Ed to better talk about it with others and explain why it’s needed.

  • Protest: Join teachers unions in demonstrations and protests. Find one representing your area here.