Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice has this message for you:

It’s happening here. Our Louisville neighbors are being detained by ICE. After playing a game of pick-up soccer with friends. After a routine check in about their status. As they work a job that takes taxes out of their wages.The immigrant and refugee families who have worked alongside us are afraid. They are afraid to show up for work. Afraid to send their children to school. Afraid to go to the grocery store. Afraid to live in a city many of them have called home for years.But we will not stand for this injustice. And, as a LSURJ member, I know you won’t either. That’s why we’re asking for your support today.

Immigrants have always been part of our country and they are our neighbors, class mates, and coworkers now.No one is safe. Take the young father-to-be who was recently detained and deported. Despite a clean criminal record. Despite his marriage to a U.S. citizen. Despite his work visa that gave him permission to work in the U.S.We are working hard every day to protect as many of our neighbors as we can. We’ve already built a network of 200 local members who are ready to defend our community. With your support, we can:

Train and deploy volunteers to report ICE raidsAccompany targeted neighborsDocument local ICE activityActivate a rapid-response team during ICE raids

To accomplish this, we need everyone. Together we can build the people power needed to transform our community into one that embraces and protects one another. Can you chip in today to sustain LSURJ’s work for the future? In solidarity, Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice P.S. At Trump’s request our mayor has decided to collaborate with ICE by reinstating the 48 hour holds that allow ICE to come get someone begin released from our jail. Check out what local LSURJ volunteer leader, Carla Wallace, had to say in this piece for the New York Times.

We cannot emphasize enough the mayor’s failure to defend out community from an administration that only wants to inflict pain and suffering on our minority neighbors. It’s remarkable he can’t see the blatant racism and xenophobia (unless, of course, he does see it and actually supports the oppression).