Immigration Justice

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Co-Chairs Ibe and Diaz React to Introduction of U.S. Citizenship Act

We celebrate its path to citizenship for 11 million people, prioritize family reunification, and strengthen immigrant and refugee integration, but introduction is not the end of the road. Congress must pass it. And the Biden Administration must ensure that no one who would benefit from this legislation is detained or deported.

By endorsing this legislation, he is making a commitment to the men, women, and children whose futures are written in these pages that he sees them, he values them, and they are already part of our American family. No one should be punished while waiting for Congress to act.

Religious Resources for Lent and Shabbat

Ahead of Ash Wednesday, the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) is releasing a booklet of nine Lenten reflections to guide individuals and congregations seeking to review how our faith-based values require us to demand a just and humane immigration system. Also during this time, IIC member HIAS is once again hosting its Refugee Shabbat, assisting congregations, organizations, and individuals in the United States and around the world with dedicating a Shabbat experience to refugees and asylum seekers. 

Faith Leaders to Biden: Ground the Death Planes

Haitian families, some with babies as young as one. Cameroonian and Angolan asylum-seekers who say they would rather die than be sent back. Honduran families forced to reside in Dilley immigration jail for 18 months-plus without a fair asylum hearing. A grandfather of 8 U.S. citizens who lived in the U.S. for 30 years. A witness to the El Paso massacre, working with law enforcement and on track to receive a U visa.

What do they all have in common? They have all been deported–or are in the process of being deported today or tomorrow–by the Biden Administration.