This week, the Biden Administration announced their framework for the “Build Back Better” bill that will invest $100 billion to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants in the United States. It is because of the strength and persistence of directly-impacted immigrants, advocates, and allies that citizenship has made it this far in the budget reconciliation process. As faith-based organizations that value the faith virtue of hope, we move forward with hope and optimism that we will win citizenship this year as our persistent advocacy continues.
Immigration Justice
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The Biden administration continues to carry out Trump’s policy, sending people to death, torture, and indefinite detention—instead of using its executive authority to protect them in the United States.
As the Biden administration continues to deport people to violence and arrest in Cameroon, the most impacted people are bravely speaking up, demanding safety and dignified treatment in the United States.
People of faith call out the pervasive anti-Black racism in the U.S. immigration system as an affront to the God-given dignity of Black immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. “It is our failure, as a nation, to recognize the gifts, potential, and spark of the divine which is in each person.”
Essential workers, many of whom are also immigrants, have faced the most significant risks amid the pandemic. Yet over the past year, they have continued to provide our communities with basic goods and critical services we need to make it through this challenging time.