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Toolkit for Faithful Fall Advocacy: Citizenship for Essential Workers, Farmworkers, and People with DACA and TPS
October 14, 2021Share this toolkit with your networks: bit.ly/2021Citizenship@interfaithimm • Facebook • interfaithimmigration.org #Faith4Citizenship #Citizenship4All #WeAreHome #ImmigrantsAreEssential The House Judiciary Committee just successfully marked up the pathway to citizenship legislative text of the Build Back Better Budget Reconciliation Bill! But what happens next depends on our continued, collective effort. Join us as we continue to urge the Biden administration ...Faith Groups Persist in Demand That Congress Include Path to Citizenship in Budget Plan
October 12, 2021Washington, DC – Immigrants and advocates—including people of faith—are practicing persistence, pressing Congress to enact a path to citizenship this year in spite of setbacks and challenges. Grounded in moral and religious convictions and following the persistent leadership of immigrants themselves, member organizations of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) urge Congress, President Biden, and Vice ...People of Faith Demand Humane Treatment of Haitian Migrants
September 22, 2021Washington, DC – People of faith are shocked and horrified by the Biden administration’s escalation of Haitian deportations and expulsions and the inhumane treatment of Haitians by Border Patrol officers at the U.S. southern border. The egregious actions of U.S. Border Patrol officers towards Haitian asylum-seekers reflect our nation’s long history of a broken immigration ...Faith Groups Respond to Parliamentarian Ruling on Including a Path to Citizenship in Budget Reconciliation
September 20, 2021Washington, DC – On Sunday, the Senate Parliamentarian issued the first of what will likely be multiple rulings in the budget reconciliation process. While the parliamentarian raised concerns on one approach to including a path to citizenship in the budget, Senate Democrats will move forward with an alternative approach to follow through on their promise ...Faith Leaders Demand Humanitarian Relief and Refuge for Haitian and Afghan Nationals
August 19, 2021WASHINGTON, DC – Faith groups from across the United States express their grief about the devastation, fear, and uncertainty that Haitian and Afghan people are feeling, and call on the Biden administration to use the significant power of the U.S. government to protect human life. Compelled by their faith traditions’ call to speak up for and ...Summer Advocacy Action List
August 13, 2021Congress has an historic opportunity to pass citizenship for immigrants through the congressional budget reconciliation process this year. On August 11, we celebrated an important step that the Senate passed a budget resolution that includes a path to citizenship. We must keep up the momentum! While Congress is in recess and into September, faith communities ...Congress Must “Show Up For Immigrant Justice, So Each Person Can Find Welcome and Home”
August 11, 2021WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate passed a budget resolution that advanced many economic and other urgent needs. Included in the package was a commitment to creating a path to citizenship for certain immigrants in the United States. People of faith from Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, ...From AZ to WV, People of Faith Demand Path to Citizenship
August 10, 2021WASHINGTON, DC – People of faith from seventeen states are calling on their Senators to pass a budget resolution with a path to citizenship for DACA recipients, TPS holders, farmworkers, and other essential workers, and to oppose any harmful anti-immigrant amendments that come up during “vote-o-rama.” From Arizona to West Virginia, and Florida to Washington ...Citizenship for All Webinars in English and Spanish
July 28, 2021Watch our “Citizenship For All” webinar and advocate for Congress to enact a path to citizenship this year! English: https://bit.ly/IICP2CENG Spanish: https://bit.ly/IICP2CSPANFaith Groups Denounce Court Ruling on DACA, Demand Pathway to Citizenship
July 19, 2021WASHNGTON, DC – Faith groups from across the United States express their deep concern regarding the decision made by a Texas federal court on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The ruling announced on July 16 “vacates” the memo that established the DACA program, which partially terminates the program by blocking new DACA ...
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