Washington DC – With the rising threat of Project 2025’s extremist agenda and proposed efforts to eviscerate our fundamental freedoms, immigrant youth are going all in to activate their peers to boldly reject Project 2025 and block it from becoming a reality. Today, immigrant youth of United We Dream Action, and our partners at LUCHA, SEIU, CHIRLA Action Fund, Make the Road Action Nevada, and more, launched bilingual radio ads in English and Spanish across streaming audio platforms and podcasts in New York, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, to ensure other young people understand the threat Project 2025 poses to the issues that matter most to our generation. From targeting our loved ones for mass deportations, ending life-changing programs like DACA and TPS, to eviscerating environmental protections and further stripping our rights over our bodies: Project 2025 is a threat to us all, and we must do everything in our power to stop it.
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Victor Guillen Febres, Communications and Counter-Disinformation Strategist of United We Dream Action, said:
“Immigrant young people like myself have seen firsthand what violent, anti-immigrant disinformation has led to. We have witnessed the consequences of anti-immigrant rhetoric fueling state violence against our people in states like Texas and Florida, paving the way for racial profiling, detention, and family separation of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.Whether it is the mass shooting in El Paso, the recent bomb threats against Haitian migrants in Ohio, or the proposals laid out in Project 2025, the rise in disinformation has been a calculated ploy to harm and even kill those in our communities. Words matter, and the proposals outlined in this dangerous plan represent the ultimate goal of the white nationalist agenda.
If Project 2025 were enacted, I would be a target as a person of color, as an immigrant, and as a TPS recipient. Our latest ad is an intentional effort to do everything in our power to make it clear to our peers and to those in the very cities and states we call home, that Project 2025 endangers the essence of our multiracial and pluralistic democracy. While the thought of being torn from my loved ones terrifies me, I am more afraid of not doing everything in my power to protect my life and the lives of the people I care about. Together, we must choose to lead in this moment and fight for a future where we can all move freely and safely in the places we call home, live with dignity and alongside those we love without being separated, and take care of our neighbors whether they were born here or elsewhere, like me. We are the leaders we need in this moment, and together we can stop Project 2025.”