Stand with NC's immigrant families and public schools! Urge Gov. Cooper to veto HB 10

We have one last shot to stop a terrible anti-immigrant, anti-public schools bill that passed the NC House Wednesday and is headed straight to Gov. Cooper’s desk, where he will have just 10 days to veto it.

This legislative session North Carolina anti-immigrant lawmakers have made a top priority out of attacks on North Carolina’s immigrant communities and the democratically elected sheriffs who refuse to do the work of ICE in holding and helping deport immigrants.

HB 10 will undermine our community's trust in law enforcement and deter immigrants from reporting sexual assault or domestic violence out of fear that doing so would put them at risk for deportation and separation from their families. HB 10 would increase racial profiling, risk separating families, and make all of our communities less safe.

This bill is also terrible for our state’s public schools. HB 10 takes nearly $500 million in funds that could be used to support our public schools and instead uses them to expand the state’s “Opportunity Scholarship” program. This program (also referred to as “school vouchers”) uses taxpayer funds to cover tuition costs for children attending private school at the expense of the 1.5 million children attending public schools in the state. Those funds could be used to hire and retain teachers, bus drivers, and teaching assistants, fund high quality pre-school and universal free school breakfasts and lunches to stave off child hunger in our state, provide resources for children with special needs, or support NC PreK classrooms – not to subsidize tuition for private schools.This is unacceptable.

Governor Cooper has twice vetoed similar legislation, in 2019 and again in 2022, and we’re counting on him to do it again. But he needs to hear from YOU that he must continue to stand up for NC’s immigrant communities, our public schools, and our kids and reject this extreme agenda.

Send your message now to Governor Cooper, telling him you appreciate his past support and that you are counting on him to veto HB 10 when it comes to his desk.

Dear Governor Cooper, As someone concerned about children and families in our state, I urge you to veto HB 10. HB 10 would make it easier for federal immigration officers to terrorize communities across our state, resulting in increased family separation and incarceration, racial profiling, and the undermining of relationships between immigrant communities and law enforcement. We know that when local law enforcement officers get involved in federal immigration law, it creates fear and mistrust in our communities, and it harms public safety. That’s why voters across the state have elected sheriffs who have rejected anti-immigrant programs and refused to do ICE’s bidding. This bill would force every North Carolina sheriff to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deport community members and hold people in jail for prolonged periods, in violation of the Constitution, make victims and witnesses of crimes feel less safe in reporting, and threatens to penalize sheriffs if they refuse to carry out this anti-immigrant agenda. This bill is also bad for our state’s public schools. HB 10 takes nearly $500 million in funds that could be used to support our public schools and instead uses them to expand the state’s “Opportunity Scholarship” program. This program (also referred to as “school vouchers”) uses taxpayer funds to cover tuition costs for children attending private school at the expense of the 1.5 million children attending public schools in the state. Those funds could be used to hire and retain teachers, bus drivers, and teaching assistants, fund high quality pre-school and universal free school breakfasts and lunches to stave off child hunger in our state, provide resources for children with special needs, or support NC PreK classrooms – not to subsidize tuition for private schools. This is unacceptable. Our state’s resources should not be used to support an extreme agenda. I appreciate the ways you stood with NC’s immigrant families by vetoing similar bills in 2019 and 2022. I strongly urge you to continue to do so this year by vetoing HB 10. Sincerely,

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