Bernie Sanders is using his massive email list to warn immigrants about ICE raids

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Bernie Sanders is using his massive email list to warn immigrants about ICE raids
Hours before Trump was set to send out the “deportation forces,” Sanders’s campaign sent thousands of supporters a distress signal.
By Tara Golshan Jun 25, 2019, 1:25pm EDT


Hours before President Donald Trump’s administration was set to send out its “deportation forces,” thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters in and around 10 major American cities received a campaign email — but it wasn’t asking for money.

“ICE raids targeting 10 cities start Sunday. Know your rights,” the subject line of a Saturday morning email read. The Sanders campaign used its campaign voter data to send out the same distress signals grassroots immigration advocacy groups typically organize around. Attached to the Sanders campaign email were two graphics, one in English and one in Spanish, with a list of immigrant rights, based on guidance from the American Civil Liberties Union.

It’s an unusual move for a presidential campaign to use its platform to do this kind of organizing, said Ruthie Epstein, ACLU’s deputy director of immigration policy. The ACLU played no role in the Sanders campaign email — nor did Epstein know it existed. (Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, formerly worked for the ACLU, however.)

“It’s not strictly on point when it comes to building out a presidential campaign [to use campaign data] for the purpose other than running for president,” Epstein said.

But this isn’t the first time Sanders’s team has used its email and phone lists for organizing people indirectly linked to his presidential ambitions. In May, Sanders’s campaign sent out targeted text messages and emails to supporters in California urging them to join union workers at 10 California university campuses and five hospitals during a one-day labor strike, HuffPost reported. Core to Sanders’s pitch for the White House is this message about mobilization; first to elect him as president, and then around his policy vision.

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https://www.vox.com/2019/6/25/18715627/bernie-sanders-email-list-warn-immigrants-ice-raids-2020

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