This coming Tuesday (June 20), the Ulster Co. Legislature will vote on Proposed Resolution 138, which would ban cooperation with federal immigration agents seeking to arrest and/or deport Ulster County undocumented immigrants. The passage of the resolution may well come down to the decision of a few legislators.
Please support undocumented immigrants in Ulster County by making a quick phone call to your legislator in support of Proposed Resolution 138. Please make a special effort if you are represented by: Craig Lopez (Pine Bush/Wawarsing), Kevin Roberts (Plattekill), Dean Fabiano (Saugerties/Ulster), and Mary Wawro (Saugerties), John Parete (Shandaken/Olive/Denning), or TJ Briggs (Ellenville/Wawarsing).
This will only take a few moments and is an important show of solidarity.
- Find your county legislator by visiting the Ulster Board of Election’s Polling Place Lookup
- Enter your information and click “Lookup.” Your county legislative district is listed under “Related Jurisdictions.”
- Once you know your county legislative district, go to http://ulstercountyny.gov/legislature/legislative-members to find their phone number.
More detailed instructions are available here.
Sample scripts for a phone call to legislators:
Hello. My name is _______________, and I am a constituent in your district. I urge you to vote YES on Proposed Resolution 138 on Tuesday evening. Deportation breaks up families and causes trauma and heartbreak. We need to protect our neighbors.
Hello. My name is _______________, and I am a constituent in your district. I urge you to vote YES on Proposed Resolution 138 on Tuesday evening. Deporting law-abiding residents actually makes all of us less safe because it destroys the relationship between law enforcement and local communities.
Hello. My name is _______________, and I am a constituent in your district. I urge you to vote YES on Proposed Resolution 138 on Tuesday evening. Many undocumented immigrants are hard-working members of our community who contribute to the local economy in important ways.
Hello. My name is _______________, and I am a constituent in your district. I urge you to vote YES on Proposed Resolution 138 on Tuesday evening. We are a nation of immigrants. The history of America is the history of people who fled poverty, starvation, and terror in hopes of a new life. It is who we are as a nation.
Please take the time to do this. Ulster County is a small place, and even a few phone calls on an issue have a great deal of influence.
