Two weeks ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced big changes to the government program that turns local cops into immigration agents (the "287g" program). The changes are a start, but they haven't stopped Sheriff Joe's dangerous and racist antics. Now Joe is refusing to cooperate with the Justice Department!

Tell Secretary Napolitano to stop supporting Sheriff Joe and his tactics.

Sign your organization, school, church, workplace, or non-profit on to a letter urging President Obama to terminate the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) widely criticized 287(g) program, which relinquishes the authority to enforce civil federal immigration law to local law enforcement and corrections officials.  Earlier this month, advocates, expecting a major overhaul of - or possibly an end to - this controversial program, were shocked to learn that DHS was expanding it to 11 new jurisdictions.   While DHS claims to have standardized the agreements, close scrutiny has shown that these changes do nothing to prevent civil and human rights abuses, and in fact only further exacerbate the program's pervasive problems.

We want more than 500 organizations by Friday, July 31st to sign on!

Note: In the coming days, individuals also will have the option to send a message directly to the President, but this week, the letter campaign is limited to organizations.