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To: Greyhound CEO

Stop the Greyhound immigration raids

This campaign has ended.

Greyhound is not safe. Border Patrol is regularly checking immigration papers and detaining passengers while they are simply trying to ride the bus in peace. Protect our friends and families. Stop the Greyhound immigration raids.

Why is this important?

On January 19th, Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound bus traveling from Miami to Orlando, demanding proof of citizenship from shocked passengers who argued that they had no reason to carry such documents on a local bus route that wasn’t crossing any borders. An elderly, Black, Jamaican lady was profiled, targeted, removed from the bus, detained, and is now imprisoned in a GEO for-profit immigrant prison, leaving her family wondering where she could be and what had happened to her. Then, less than a week later, it happened again, when a Black man from Trinidad was targeted and dragged away from the bus in handcuffs.

This has been a repeated practice on Greyhound buses, while Customs and Border Patrol claims jurisdiction anywhere within 100 miles from a border, covering virtually the entire state of Florida and two-thirds of the U.S. population. The rogue agency can arbitrarily board buses without a judicial warrant, with free reign to target immigrants anywhere in Florida. This discriminatory and invasive practice has been denounced by nearly 20 members of Congress.

Unlike twelve other states, Florida restricts access to drivers licenses for immigrants, leaving families few to no options for mobility. Corporations like Greyhound value immigrant dollars, but not immigrant lives.

Until Greyhound does more to protect their rights, immigrant passengers are not safe from harassment by law enforcement and civil rights violations. Americans deserve to ride the bus in peace without having to carry a birth certificate or passport to travel. In 2018, it is outrageous that there is an apartheid-like passbook requirement to travel within your own state.

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Updates

2020-05-12 08:49:03 -0700

Petition is successful with 822 signatures

2018-02-28 18:18:39 -0800

500 signatures reached

2018-02-28 15:49:20 -0800

100 signatures reached

2018-02-10 18:10:53 -0800

50 signatures reached

2018-01-31 17:09:04 -0800

25 signatures reached

2018-01-30 17:48:55 -0800

10 signatures reached