Supreme Court Sets in Motion One of the Largest Mass De-Documentations in U.S. History (6/26/26)
We stand with our Haitian and Syrian neighbors. Plus learn how we de-ICEd Jersey City Monday, deadline for public comment against a federal worker gag order, this week's judges to thank and more
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356,000 of our neighbors are now set to lose legal status in a month - push for Congress to step in, signal boost useful resources, and make sure we’re connected with rapid response
Organizers got Jersey City to divest $265 million from Citizens Bank over their financing of the ICE camps - learn how they did it Monday, join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition’s next day of action July 18th
Stand with Kansas City tenant organizers and demand their landlord keep his word
A state-by-state guide to pre-registering future 18-year-olds to vote
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1.3 MILLION PEOPLE ARE SET TO LOSE LEGAL STATUS IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER SCOTUS DECISION
We have arrived at the moment in June when this captured Supreme Court releases its final opinions of the term, and we find out just how many lives they’re going to ruin to serve the right wing and oligarch agendas. It’s going to be a tragically high number this year.
Yesterday, they announced rulings blocking tens of thousands of lawsuits against Monsanto for failing to warn consumers of the cancer risks from the weed killer Roundup and allowing border agents to physically block asylum seekers from stepping foot on U.S. soil, preventing them from making their claims at all. Perhaps most brutally, they shot down challenges to Trump ending Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians currently living completely legally in the United States, saying the courts were barred from reviewing them and the President’s very public racist comments about Haitians were insufficient to show racial animus. They have paved the way for one of the largest mass de-documentations in American history. More than a million other TPS recipients are now at risk.
We won’t mince words here. This is brutal, and our chances of successfully stopping it at this point are very small. But we are not going to surrender while we have any opportunity left to fight. The House actually passed a bill to preserve TPS for the Haitian community in April after a successful discharge petition, with 11 Republicans in favor. 🗣️ The Haitian Bridge Alliance is now asking us to contact our senators and urge them to push for a vote on S.4814 in the upper chamber. We can find language to work from here. 🗣️
⚙️ The International Refugee Assistance Project has pulled together more information on where we are with TPS by country and how folks can prepare if they are going to lose their TPS status here that we can circulate. We can also spread word about the Haitian Bridge Alliance hotline for legal and humanitarian aid at 619-693-8708. ⚙️
🤜🏻 And if we’re in an area with large Haitian and Syrian communities, this is a great time to connect with our local rapid response networks before their TPS is set to expire on July 27th. We can find one near us here. 🤛🏿
A BIG WIN AND A NEW DAY OF ACTION IN THE FIGHT TO DE-ICE CITIZENS
The deportation machine is being made possible by private prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic. The private prison companies are being financed by Citizens Bank, to the tune of half a billion dollars each. And Citizens Bank is in business with the rest of us, too – meaning we have the power to knock down this key pillar of support for ICE terror.
The De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition has been organizing individuals and institutions to divest or join the pool of folks pledging to close their Citizens accounts. They’ve now built a pool of $22.8 million in deposits from folks committed to move their money unless Citizens Bank stops funding the concentration camps. And earlier this month they scored a game-changing victory, with the city council of Jersey City, New Jersey voting to pull $265 million from Citizens. Now Montclair is considering following suit with another $93.1 million. Even a business this size is going to stand up and take notice of that.
On MONDAY at 7PM ET, De-ICE Citizens Bank is holding a webinar featuring Jersey City municipal officials and organizers to talk about how they won and how we can encourage our local governments to do the same. 🏫 We can sign up to join them here. 🏫
And on July 18th, they’re going to hold their next day of action, with protests at Citizens Bank branches across the nation. They made their presence felt at more than 140 locations in 15 states at their last mobilization on June 6th, and they’re hoping to grow even bigger this time around. 🪧 We can sign up to host an action here and find one near us here! 🪧
DEADLINE TO OPPOSE GAG ORDER FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS TODAY
Leaks from within the Trump Administration have revealed unprecedented levels of corruption, abuses of power and systematic violations of our constitutional rights, along with controversial policies they intended to impose with minimal public debate or even without the public knowing. So now the regime is trying to make it official public policy to silence and prosecute the folks who have opened the door to accountability.
They’ve proposed a new rule that would require federal employees to sign a non-disclosure agreement, pledging not to share “non-public, confidential or proprietary information.” While signing it is ostensibly voluntary, workers can be fired and barred from future government jobs for not signing. As Catherine Rampell put it, this is essentially a gag order for every single federal worker.
There are already extensive secrecy requirements in place for government information that’s supposed to be secret. This is intended to keep information from the public that the public needs and deserves to know, stopping folks from exposing wrongdoing.
✍🏾 TODAY is the final day we can submit public comments in opposition to this proposed rule. Let’s make our voices heard against this chilling move. We can find guidance on how to comment effectively here, and find arguments to work from via Don Moynihan here. ✍🏼
While we’re at it, public comments are due by day’s end Monday on a proposed rule by Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development that would eliminate gender identity protections in federal housing. ✍🏻 We can find more information, talking points and guidance on how to comment effectively from Advocates for Trans Equality here. ✍🏻
SOME TENANT UNION SOLIDARITY
Tenant activists in Kansas City have come together to secure a fair deal for renters in three buildings in the North Indian Mound neighborhood. Now the landlord they got to the table is failing to live up to his end of the bargain. Among other issues, he has abandoned his commitment to relocate six families who have gone more than two weeks without power, leaving some sleeping in their cars. He has found time to show these deeply dilapidated buildings to prospective buyers, though.
💬 The KC Tenants Union is asking folks to reach out to the landlord and push him to keep his word to the renters. We can find contact information and language to use here. Let’s stand with these folks organizing their neighborhoods! 💬
PRE-REGISTERING TO VOTE IN HIGH SCHOOL
The Civics Center, an organization dedicated to helping young people become voters, estimates that only 30% of 18-year-olds are registered to vote. Now, The Civics Center has compiled a state-by-state guide for students under 18 to pre-register to vote so they are all set to go to the polls when they turn 18. The guide also includes information on how teens can run a pre-registration drive, and how educators and other adults can help them. ⚙️ Let’s read this blog post from The Civics Center to learn more about the guide, and let’s share the guide. If we’re educators, let’s click on our state and download the toolkit for resources on how to support our students in getting registered—example (NY): Guide page, toolkit request form. ⚙️
THIS WEEK’S JUDGES TO THANK
Facing threats, political pressure and a Supreme Court majority that has frequently not had their backs, lower court judges are still doing vitally important work to keep this administration’s power within the bounds of the law. Let’s acknowledge their work and send encouragement to keep fighting.
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan has blocked the use of a federal database that was going to be used to compare lists of registered voters against DHS immigration data and could wrongly purge voters from rolls. 📝 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Sooknanan from preventing yet another attempt to interfere with our elections. 📝
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001.
Judge Patrick Schiltz has blocked an attempt by the administration to subpoena Minnesota officials over their reaction to ICE misdeeds in their state. 📝 Write a note or postcard to thank Judge Schiltz for preventing this blatantly retaliatory harassment. The role of the DOJ is to investigate actual crimes, not to go after Trump’s opponents. 📝
Judge Patrick Schiltz
Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
316 North Robert Street - Suite 100
St. Paul, MN 55101
Judge James Patrick Hanlon ordered immigration officials to release Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, on the basis that he was targeted for speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights. 📝 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Hanlon for standing up for Salah Sarsour’s rights and the First Amendment. 📝
Judge James Patrick Hanlon
United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana
46 East Ohio Street, Room 105
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang has struck down a series of restrictions on abortion in Missouri, finding they violated a constitutional amendment that voters approved in 2024 (and the state legislature is trying to roll back now). 📝 Let’s write a note or postcard to thank Judge Zhang for not allowing decisions made by Missouri voters to be ignored. 📝
Judge Jerri Zhang
Jackson County Circuit Court
415 E 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64106
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Submit public comments to oppose barring trans folks from emergency shelters by MONDAY
Upcoming fights on Capitol Hill: House vote on cutting disability compensation for 1.5 million veterans delayed House; Senate will consider nomination of Trump henchmen Todd Blanche for AG with confirmation hearing July 15; continued pressure to block Trump’s slush fund and self-pardon with Rep. Raskin introducing new discharge petition; Trump wants $87.6 billion in supplemental appropriations, including $67.1 billion for his Iran war; Senate GOP continues work on drafting farm bill that would preserve SNAP cuts; Congress still struggling with intertwined warantless wiretapping and DNI appointments; Senate to consider agriculture appropriations bill that cuts food assistance for newborns and pregnant women; Senate working on surface transportation funding bill that would punitively jack up fees on EVs; House considers NDAA
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How many immigrants could be deported by Roberts Supreme Court’s TPS decision? We did the math.
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/06/26/temporary-protected-status-supreme-court-racism/