3/1/21

By Karla Barber

What’s Next?: Postcard Campaign

Postcard #6 - Mailing March 9-12

Stop Deportation Flights

Join our postcard campaign to President Biden, Vice President Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas (Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) and Xavier Becerra (Secretary of Health and Human Services). Please follow these instructions:

1. Download Postcard #6 (Photos of ICE airplanes)

2. Print your postcards: Four postcards per sheet, double sided on card stock. You can purchase card stock and cut apart or  Avery has postcard stock available that is perforated for separation (4 1/4" x 5 1/2", 4 per sheet). If you can’t print double sided, you can print single side. 

3. Write your postcards. The theme is Stop Deportation Flights. Talking points are suggested here:

a) End Title 42 - the CDC order that “prevents” entry based on health safety. Groups like Physicians for Human Rights say it is unnecessary.

b) Since Title 42 has been in place 100 million people have entered the country WITHOUT health checks, but 440 thousand immigrants have been expelled.

c) Stop ‘exporting’ COVID to vulnerable countries. Deportation flights are cruel during a pandemic.

d) Stop deporting people to places like Mauritania, where slavery still exists. And to Haiti and Cameroon, where violence and corruption are rampant.

e) Stop using inhumane treatments like ‘the Wrap’ to punish people during the deportation process.

f) #WelcomeWithDignity #HaltAllDeportations #EndTitle42 #BlackImmigrantLivesMatter.

Address the cards to:

President Biden

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, D.C. 20500

Vice President Harris

The White House

Office of the Vice President

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC 20500

The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas

Secretary of Homeland Security

2707 Martin Luther King, Jr. SE

Washington, DC 20528

The Honorable Xavier Becerra

Health and Human Services

200 Independence Avenue, S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20201

5.  Apply a 36 cent postcard stamp to each card 

6. Drop your cards in the mail between March 9-12.

EXTRA CREDIT 

Several What’s Next? participants have asked for additional people to send postcards to. If you would like to run an extra sheet, others you can write to are listed below. Ruiz is the Chair of the Congressional Caucus.

The Honorable Antony Blinken

Secretary of State

US Department of State

2201 C St., NW

Washington, DC 20520

Representative Paul Ruiz

2342 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Representative Nancy Pelosi

235 Cannon HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Your member of Congress