The United States has spent decades destabilizing other countries, then punishing the people who flee the fallout. Families are caged. Asylum seekers are criminalized. Workers are exploited in silence. In Prince George’s County, immigrants are neighbors, co-workers, parents, and students, but they are treated like bargaining chips by politicians who feed fear for power.

A just immigration system doesn’t start with walls or raids. It starts with humanity, legal protection, and a fair path to belonging.

The Plan

1. Legal status and a path to citizenship

• Create an eight-year path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who pass background checks and pay taxes.

• Expand DACA and TPS with automatic renewals and legal pathways to permanent residency.

• End the three- and ten-year reentry bars that keep families separated for decades.

2. Humane border and asylum policy

• Restore and expand asylum protections, including for people fleeing political violence, climate disasters, and gender-based harm.

• Repeal Title 42 and other Trump-era asylum bans.

• Process asylum claims efficiently and fairly, with full legal representation and non-carceral housing options.

3. End detention profiteering

• Ban for-profit immigration detention centers.

• Impose a strict 72-hour limit on family separations and child detentions.

• Fund community-based alternatives to detention that respect human rights and due process.

4. Strengthen worker protections

• Create a universal work authorization registry that protects undocumented workers from wage theft and employer abuse.

• Expand U-visas and whistleblower protections for immigrant workers who report labor violations.

• End I-9 raids and workplace crackdowns that punish workers instead of exploitative employers.

5. Keep ICE out — and in full view when they’re forced in

• End 287(g) deputization. Local police should keep communities safe, not funnel neighbors into detention.

• Raid-free safety zones. No ICE operations near schools, hospitals, courthouses, or houses of worship.

• Warrants for data. DMV, utility, and school records stay sealed unless ICE shows a judge-signed warrant.

• Full-badge transparency. Agents in the field must display a readable name plate and badge number, wear bodycams, and present warrants in the language spoken in the home. No masks, no anonymity, no exceptions (medical PPE aside).

• Body-cam mandate + public log. If local police have to wear cameras, federal immigration agents do too. Footage is logged the same day, timestamped, and reviewable by an independent civilian board.

If you carry a federal badge, you don’t get to hide behind it—and you definitely don’t get to terrorize our communities.

6. Fix the legal immigration backlog

• Modernize the green card and visa system to clear the decades-long backlog for family reunification and employment-based migration.

• End the country cap on employment visas that discriminates against immigrants from populous nations.

• Automatically extend work authorization for immigrants stuck in processing delays.

How we pay

• End for-profit immigration detention contracts and border wall surveillance contracts.

• Close tax loopholes for companies that illegally exploit undocumented workers.

• Reinvest asylum backlog and deportation defense funding into community case support.

Immigrants are not threats or burdens — they are builders, caregivers, organizers, and entrepreneurs.

It’s time our laws treated them with dignity and respect.