Contact Maine’s Senators: Urge Them To Create Pathway To Citizenship For Millions

March 2021

The Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed the House of Representatives in March with bipartisan support! The Dream and Promise Act would establish a pathway to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) recipients. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would create a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers and would change the existing H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa program.

While DACA, TPS, and DED recipients and farmworkers need relief NOW, the current bills have many bars for immigrants who have had contact with our racially biased criminal legal system. This disproportionately harms immigrants of color, which you can read more about in this letter signed by ILAP and over 270 organizations. We need pathways to citizenship without these damaging criminal bars.

Next up, the Senate! Call or email our Senators today and urge them to vote for an inclusive Dream and Promise Act and Farm Workforce Modernization Act without criminal bars to status:

Senator Susan Collins: 📞 (202) 224-2523 📩 www.collins.senate.gov/contact

Senator Angus King: 📞 (202) 224-5344 📩 www.king.senate.gov/contact

If you live outside of Maine, you can find your representatives here