Washington, DC – SEARAC is appalled at yesterday’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision, which allows the US government to deport people to countries they have never set foot in without due process.
As a result of this ruling, asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants may be sent to countries experiencing war and violence, such as South Sudan, and inhumane locations, such as Guantanamo Bay. This decision tears our communities from their families and the only home they’ve ever known in the United States, without the opportunity to present their case before a judge.
A statement from Quyên Đinh, Executive Director of SEARAC:
“This decision creates a dangerous situation for everyone in the United States by justifying this Administration’s blatant disregard for our laws and the constitutional rights everyone is entitled to, regardless of immigration status. Southeast Asian Americans intimately understand the climate of fear and potential for mass harm that these actions create. These are situations that we have escaped from 50 years ago, when Southeast Asian refugees were forced to rebuild their lives in the United States after surviving war, genocide, and violence.
It is unconscionable for our country to send our loved ones into the same kinds of danger we once escaped after we’ve spent decades building community in the United States and calling it home.
We urge the Senate to protect all of us to live free from fear by not funding immigration enforcement and voting to block passage of the reconciliation bill.”
Media contact: Elaine Sanchez Wilson, elaine@searac.org
TAKE ACTION: Tell your US senator to vote NO on the big, bad budget bill
1) Tell your senators to stop supercharging immigration enforcement at the expense of our families. Take five minutes to send an email to your senators urging them to VOTE NO on the budget reconciliation bill, which would shift billions of federal funds into supercharging deportations.
2) Participate in our Southeast Asian American Day of Action this Thursday, June 26, 2025, by following SEARAC on social media @searac and resharing our digital content.
2025 marks 50 years of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement in the United States. Learn more about the Southeast Asian American community’s power year.
