“This administration’s immigration policies are disastrous and they are inflicting pain on communities,” said Sen. Harris during a press call with Sen. Hirono, Sen. Menendez, and other advocates today. “To minimize damage, we need to reduce the funding for President Trump’s deportation force and provide no funds for his costly and unnecessary border wall.”

It’s clear that Donald Trump’s nativist vision has already caused far too much damage in immigrant communities across the nation. Just this month, Liliana Cruz Mendez, an undocumented mom of two young children, was deported to El Salvador despite urgent pleas from her state’s governor and several members of Congress for John Kelly to halt her removal. What crime did Liliana commit that somehow merited she be ripped away from her family after a decade in the U.S.? Driving without a license:

Cruz Mendez’s husband, Rene Bermudez, said the family was shattered by the deportation. He sobbed as he recounted how their children, aged 10 and 4, wept when they heard Cruz Mendez was gone. “How can they take away their mother?” he said.

“Eleven million people are living in fear every day,” said Sen. Hirono during the press call. “This is injustice … my mother sacrificed a lot for me to be in this country, so I can empathize with those who want to stay and thrive here. We must not go gently into the dark night, we must fight.”