Civic Engagement

Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s illegal cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.  To interview DACA beneficiaries working for faith-based institutions, contact Lynn Tramonte at media@interfaithimmigration.org.    Giovana Oaxaca, Government Relations Associate at NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice said: “In a month of historic firsts, the ...

Faith Leaders Commemorate World Refugee Day June 20, Urge U.S. to Restore Protections That Save Lives “Our lives and rights are interconnected, and the racism that has gutted refugee resettlement is part and parcel to the hatred that harms and kills Black people in the United States”  Washington, DC – June 20th is World Refugee Day, a day ...

Washington, DC – Today, 339 faith-based organizations and 1,356 faith leaders from all fifty states, plus DC, are issuing an open letter to policymakers at all levels, demanding an end to anti-immigrant policies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter comes on the same day that a proposed rule to completely gut the ...

“The fight for justice for all immigrants is part of a larger racial justice movement that demands full equality and investments in the communities of Black people and communities of color” Washington, DC – Monday, June 15, marks eight years since President Barack Obama announced the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program ...

“More People Will Die” Washington, DC – Yesterday the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security submitted a notice of proposed rulemaking to the Federal Register that proves these governmental bodies stand for neither justice nor safety.  The proposed rule further guts the U.S. legal system of asylum and other protections for people who are fleeing violence and ...

On June 3, the IIC held a webinar on detention, asylum, and enforcement issues during the COVID-19 pandemic with: Sharon Stanley-Rea, Director, Disciples Refugee & Immigration Ministries (RIM) Guerline Jozef, President of Haitian Bridge Alliance Chiqui Sanchez Kennedy, Immigration Legal Services Director, YMCA International Services Pedro Rios, Director of the U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee Hillary Kipnis, Migrant ...

Washington, DC – On Pentecost Sunday, speaking before an empty Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Rev. William J. Barber III offered this: We cannot try to hurry up and put the screams and the tears and the hurt back in the bottle, just to get back to some normal that was abnormal in the ...

Washington, DC – (TW: Abuse of children) The headlines are shocking enough: “More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy” – The New York Times “The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus” – ProPublica and Texas Tribune “Under Trump policy, U.S. plays custody keep-away with migrant children”- Los Angeles Times “ICE ...

Washington, DC – The New York Times reports that the Trump administration plans to extend its border closure indefinitely, citing the coronavirus pandemic. The ban would keep regions in the north and south of the United States, whose economies rely on the dynamic flow of goods and people across borders, on lock down for the ...

Washington, DC –  Tomorrow, House Democrats are holding a virtual roundtable on ICE’s deadly “response” to the COVID-19 pandemic. The forum will be live streamed at 12:30pm EST. Following the massive outbreaks of coronavirus in numerous ICE facilities across the nation, and the tragic deaths of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia and Oscar Lopez Acosta, an Ohio ...