Clergy and low-wage workers with the Poor People's Campaign are also calling on Congress to treat the nation's immigrants with respect.

"We're saying across this country, it's time for people... to march on these Senate offices," declared Rev. William Barber.

"This is a moral issue, a constitutional issue, and we're gonna stand and fight against it—even if we gotta go to jail."

"We can provide robust voting rights, decent jobs, and secure incomes, housing, healthcare, education, peace, and a clean environment for everyone."

"We have a long history of wars against other people, mostly people of color, around the world. It's time we stopped calling it the Defense Department and started calling it what it is: the Department of War."

"We cannot continue to have a democracy that engages in the kind of policy violence that we see happening every day."

"We are witnessing an assault on the poor, on immigrants, on black and brown people, and on the Earth, and we can't let it happen any longer."