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Aparna knows that there are two choices in a time of rising authoritarianism: collaboration or resistance. Donald Trump is sending masked federal agents into DC to tear immigrant families apart, snatching people who are on their way to work, brutalizing delivery drivers and construction workers, and making our neighbors afraid to drop their kids off at school. Meanwhile, the billionaires in his administration are throwing federal workers out of their jobs, slashing a billion-dollar hole in DC’s social services, and attacking queer and trans rights.

Ward 1 has been fighting back, and you deserve leaders who fight with you, rather than rolling over for Trump. Aparna will stand up to the federal occupation of DC, she will have federal workers’ backs, and she’ll fight for a city where everyone can live a safe, dignified life. Here’s how:
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[b]End DC and MPD Cooperation With ICE: [/b] Instead of standing up for us, Mayor Bowser is cooperating with the occupations and signing over control of the Metro Police Department (MPD) to Trump. MPD is supposed to be solving serious crimes. Instead, the Mayor and MPD are setting up check points to racially profile our residents and helping ICE separate immigrant families. As Ward 1 Councilmember, Aparna will fight to end MPD’s collaboration with ICE and guarantee that no DC resources are being used to support Trump’s mass deportation plans.
[b]Enforce and Defend Our Sanctuary Law: [/b]Mayor Bowser is also attacking immigrants herself, including trying to repeal the Sanctuary Values Act, a local law which prevents our local police force from participating in immigration enforcement operations. Repealing the act would make all of us less safe by driving immigrants into the shadows and deepening distrust of the justice system. Aparna will never vote to roll back our sanctuary law– instead she’ll fight to enforce and strengthen it, including by making sure there are consequences  that apply when local officials flagrantly break the law.
[b]Bring Oversight and Accountability: [/b]Aparna will also fight to expose federal and public officials who are violating the law during the occupation. She will investigate the widespread and illegal police brutality, racial profiling, and civil rights abuses committed by federal agents. She’ll hold city officials accountable for blatantly breaking DC’s sanctuary city law. Every day, she’ll use her oversight powers to demand answers, like: how many resources local police are dedicating to the occupation; how many people local police are stopping on the street just because of their job or the color of their skin; how many families are being separated; and how many serious crimes have gone unsolved because local police is spending its time on federal checkpoints or ICE support.
[b]Ban Law Enforcement from Wearing Masks: [/b]Aparna will fight to ban secret policing in DC by banning all law enforcement officials in the District from wearing masks, as well as requiring them to display names and badge numbers.
[b]Organize With and For Our Community: [/b]While politicians abandon our community, we are keeping ourselves safe. As a Ward One resident, Aparna is joining community groups, teachers, labor groups, and parents to protect our neighbors. As the Councilmember, Aparna will dedicate her constituent services resources to bolster community organizing and aid, including by helping make sure that our kids can get to school and back safely, supporting teachers and school staff in helping immigrant children learn during this crisis, and working with religious centers and small businesses to ensure they have everything they need to protect their communities. She will also use her constituent services team to give regular trainings and information to all our neighbors about our rights when we see ICE. 
[b]Fund Public Immigration Defenders: [/b]Aparna will fight to fund public immigration legal services, to provide free, high-quality representation to DC residents and to prevent wrongful deportations. Immigrants who don’t have a lawyer to help navigate our broken immigration system are far more likely to lose their immigration cases than those who do. Aparna supports a program modeled after the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, which has successfully kept families together by providing free legal services to immigrants facing deportation or in detention.
[b]Protect Our Data: [/b]Aparna will also work with DC agencies to ensure the safety and security of data belonging to all of us, including noncitizens, in DC. That includes banning facial recognition surveillance technology, which ICE, CBP, and DHS have used in hundreds of arrests, and which has an extremely high error rate when used to identify people of color and women. It also includes regulating DC’s use of automated camera systems to prevent mass surveillance and reckless data sharing.
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Love this!! Thanks for sharing, just donated to the campaign [url]https://aparnafordc.com/donate[/url]. Anyone want to match me? [/quote]

No thanks.  This person is even worse than Allen and Nadieu.  Her policies would require at least a 10% tax hike and still blow a massive hole in the budget.[/quote]

How much money does it cost exactly to tell MPD to not do Trump's dirty work for him? If anything I feel like we would be saving money on overtime. The only thing mentioned here that would really cost money would be the public immigration defense lawyers, but we could hire some newly laid off feds to do that for a reasonable rate.[/quote]

NYIFUP is currently funded at $34 million in New York.[/quote]

Cool, and that works out to like less than $5 per NYC resident. I'd be down to pitch in that much, or even double or triple if we think about the fact I'm probably paying an above-average share of taxes in DC, if it means that my kid's classmates at Banneker don't have to be afraid of their parents just getting snatched out of their car while moving it out of the street sweeping zone (which happened just last month here on Newton Street). Plus, it's not like you MAGA types living out in Potomac and McLean would be paying for it anyways.[/quote]

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