Mayor Woodards and Tacoma City Council Members:

We will not accept the Trump administration's inhumane persecution of immigrants and refugees nor the forceful separation of families and caging of children.  

We believe in justice, dignity, and respect for all people, regardless of where they are born.  We demand action.  

As elected representatives, it is not enough to stand on the sidelines, silent and meek, while injustice is carried out in the City of Destiny.  Tacoma is home to the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), where over 1,500 people are imprisoned.  What are you doing to address this injustice?

We urge you to use your position and power to condemn the NWDC and stop this injustice.  Prove your allegiance doesn't stand with the for-profit immigration prison:

1. Return any campaign donations you accepted from GEO Group.

2. Take an active and public stance against ICE.

3. Work to abolish Tacoma's immigration prison, NWDC, by any means possible.