Suggested statements for your letter/email –Choose one or more to include or write your own support the right of refugees to start a new life in a safe place.
We have a responsibility to protect the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers.
Refugees enrich our community. Some of the most inspiring and influential people in our country were refugees.
Refugees have a right to international protection. The risks to their safety and life were so great that they felt they had no choice but to leave their home.
The United States has long offered safe haven to people fleeing violence, tyranny and persecution.
Those who helped our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are in grave danger and need to be able to resettle with their families. I believe that the Special Immigrant Visa Program needs to be brought back for them.
In our community, refugees are entrepreneurs, consumers and taxpayers, contributing to economic growth. Refugee resettlement enriches our economy.
Taking in refugees to resettle in our community shows our humanitarian tradition, our democratic values and leadership in human rights.
In our community, employers value refugees because they are hard-working and dependable. They have lost everything and are eager to quickly become productive in their new home.
Amnesty International Sacramento 
