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Washington, DC – Yesterday, people of faith joined border organizations and directly-impacted groups in lamenting the day that was to mark the end of the asylum-blocking Title 42 expulsion policy. Instead, May 23rd was another day of a broken and harmful asylum system following a federal judge’s ruling on Friday that blocked the Biden administration ...

Washington, DC — Dozens of groups based in the District of Columbia, which is located in Piscataway Nation, expressed their solidarity and steadfast support to the migrants and asylum seekers that were bussed to the nation’s capital by Governor Greg Abbott of Texas. When Governor Abbott announced his plan to send people seeking asylum and ...

Washington, DC — The #WelcomeWithDignity campaign held a press call with faith leaders welcoming the Biden administration’s first step towards restoring asylum by ending Title 42.  Undeterred by some lawmakers’ attempts to stop President Biden from ending the policy, the faith leaders expressed their readiness to work with the federal government to welcome asylum seekers ...

Washington, DC – Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced its plans to terminate Title 42 by May 23. The public health order, first invoked by the Trump administration and continued by the Biden administration, has been misused for over two years to block migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S. southern ...

Washington, DC – Faith leaders, humanitarian organizations, and immigrants’ rights groups marched from the Trump Hotel to the White House today to demand an end to Title 42. The public health order, first implemented by the Trump administration and affirmatively continued by the Biden administration, has been misused for “two years too long” to illegally ...

Washington, DC –  Today, nine hundred spiritual leaders and multiple faith-based and immigrant rights groups delivered a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to immediately halt all efforts to expand immigrant detention. With the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration approaching, the signatories – including Church World Service, Detention Watch Network, Interfaith ...

Washington, DC – Just days into the observance of Las Posadas and on the eve of International Migrants Day, President Biden sent the 100th expulsion flight to Haiti in less than three months. These nearly daily flights have resulted in the removal of over 10,700 Haitians who sought refuge in the United States, nearly half ...

Washington, DC –  Today the Biden administration announced its decision to reimplement and expand the so-called “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), also known as “Remain in Mexico” – a policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in dangerous conditions in Mexico for their asylum hearings in the United States. People of faith express righteous anger at ...

Washington, DC – Interfaith Immigration Coalition partner Hope Border Institute of El Paso, Texas released its latest report, “No Queda de Otra: An Exploration of the Root Causes of Migration to the Southern Border.” Based on dozens of interviews with migrants and asylum seekers in Ciudad Juárez, the research finds that climate change and the ...

Washington, DC – On Friday, rabbis, pastors, doctors, public health experts, and human rights leaders delivered more than 200,000 signatures to the White House demanding President Biden and the Center for Disease Control to take immediate action to restore the right to seek asylum by ending Trump-era, asylum-blocking policies such as Title 42 and ‘Remain ...