With Donald Trump’s inauguration just days away, we’re reminded that 2017 will be a year when we will have to stand up for the most vulnerable among us. And the president-elect has vowed to deport millions of migrant workers who have lived, labored and flourished in this country for years.

There are an estimated 11 million undocumented workers in the United States whose only “crime” is working to support their families. They are Americans in all but name and deporting them -- as Trump has repeatedly promised to do -- would be a moral outrage and a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions.

A recent memo leaked from Trump’s transition team shows that our worst fears are being realized. Not only does Trump not plan to temper his campaign promises, the memo suggests that migrant deportation will be an immediate priority for a Trump administration. We have to demand that the corporations who employ these workers stand up for their rights when they need it most.

Tell the corporations that employ undocumented workers to protect them against a Trump White House.

It’s impossible to exaggerate what ripping 11 million human beings away from their communities, their schools, their churches and their workplaces will do the social, cultural and economic fabric of this country. Many migrants without documentation have lived here for decades. Migrant workers are absolutely essential to the agriculture and construction industries that would face near collapse if so much of their workforce was suddenly deported, incarcerated or too scared to come to work.

SumOfUs members have stood up for the rights of vulnerable workers all over the world. When the Rama Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed in 2013, killing 1,100 workers, hundreds of thousands of us came together and forced multinational garment corporations to agree to pay their workers a few pennies more to make sure these disasters didn’t happen again.

This time, there are 11 million people vulnerable to the hateful rhetoric Trump and his cronies are spreading everywhere. They are our neighbors, our co-workers, our classmates and our friends. It’s up to us to make sure corporate America honors its obligation to its employees and keeps them safe.

Demand that corporations who employ undocumented workers stand up to a Trump administration and fight any deportation law.

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