Stop Deportations & Keep Families Together

We say NO to Jeh Johnson, ARCHITECT OF THE DEPORTATION MACHINE, as a Speaker in our community!

Seattle CityClub’s Choice to invite Secretary Johnson to speak normalizes the ongoing oppression and harm of immigrant & refugee communities. Inviting him as the Keynote speaker legitimates what federal courts as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have already recognized as a fundamental betrayal of our core values.

There is absolutely nothing civil about the separation of children and families, the widespread abuse that goes on in these facilities, and in many cases, literal deaths caused by the inhumane treatment of ICE agents and the Department of Homeland Security. In the past two years alone, 22 immigrants died under suspicious circumstances, a good number of which have been children!

Secretary Johnson is the sole voice of their fundraiser. He is not on a panel alongside those who could challenge him on behalf of the community he has devastated. To uphold his voice without a counterpoint is irrefutably anti-immigrant. Seattle cannot distinguish itself as a safe place for immigrants when civic organizations like Seattle CityClub so willingly welcome the “Architect of Deportations” into our own home.

Join us to loudly say:

Stop Deportations! End Family Separation!