In California, when immigrants and refugees have completed their sentences in state prisons and local jails, law enforcement voluntarily transfers them to ICE custody for detention and deportation — disproportionately impacting Black, Latinx, and AAPI immigrant communities.
But we have the opportunity to change that: the VISION Act (AB 937) passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee and is headed to a floor vote. This bill would stop transfers to ICE and instead allow our immigrant neighbors to return home to their families and communities.
Our Jewish values drive us to organize for a just immigration system — one in which the stranger, the widow, and the orphan are treated as our own. That is why we became an official co-sponsor of the VISION Act.
And that’s why we need to take action to demand our representatives rise with us and our immigrant neighbors. Email your assemblymember today: tell them to vote yes on the VISION Act.