On October 20, the House and Senate versions of the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act will be discussed in conference committee. The Senate version (S. 2845) is true to the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 commission and should be supported.
The House version (HR 10) has little to do with the recommendations of the Commission, and several of its provisions will put the lives and safety of victims of torture and other abuses at risk.
The House version allows immigration officers to immediately deport - without any review - non-citizens who have been in the US for less than 5 years. This means that immigrant victims of sexual and domestic violence will lose the protections they have been afforded for the past 10 years under the Violence Against Women Act - protections that allowed them to escape the abuse, keep their children and remain safely in this country. It also means that refugees seeking asylum from torture, military rapes, genital mutilation, sexual trafficking and more, can be denied asylum without as much as a hearing by an immigration judge.
Send the message below to members of the conference committee urging them to reject H.R. 10 and to pass the Senate bill, which is consistent with the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 commission.
9/11 Safety Bill makes abused women and refugees unsafe 🙁