Civic Engagement

** Congress passed a short term spending bill until Dec. 7 and will have to decide again how much money to allocate for immigration enforcement for the rest of the fiscal year. Please stay tuned for another alert for a national call in day on Dec. 3. Do not hesitate to reach out to your ...

441 faith leaders and 74 faith-based organizations, write to call for you and your colleagues to oppose the administration’s practice of family incarceration and any legislative effort to alter or weaken the protections of the Flores settlement agreement that would expand family detention and indefinitely lengthen the time immigrant children are held in custody, vulnerable ...

FAITH LEADERS OPPOSE HISTORICALLY LOW RESETTLEMENT GOAL FOR FY19; URGE ADMINISTRATION TO RESETTLE 75,000 WASHINGTON – Responding to Secretary Pompeo’s recent press conference that set refugee admissions goal at 30,000 during the worst refugee crisis in human history, members of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition and the broader faith community expressed their dismay and outrage in failing ...

Interfaith Immigration Coalition Members Mark One Year Since Administration Ended DACA; Urge Compassionate Solutions For Dreamers WASHINGTON – In the year since the Trump administration announced the cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), faith communities have tirelessly worked alongside DACA recipients and the broader immigrant rights community to find compassionate, lasting solutions. DACA ...

this week’s webinar along with the slide deck. Other resources include: the Justice for Immigrants website, the August 2018 Toolkit, and the End Family Separation Toolkit. Please join us for a webinar on Monday, July 30 at 4 PM EST on family separation with members of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Justice ...

The national crisis of separated families and indefinite detention is raging on. Congress has an important role to play to end family incarceration and separation. But right now, they are considering pouring billions of dollars into inhumane immigration enforcement, detention, and border militarization, while considering legislation that will incarcerate more families indefinitely. Congress must act ...

Offended that Attorney General Jeff Sessions used sacred texts to justify border tactics that are “immoral, inhumane, and unnecessary,” on Friday, June 22, dozens of local and national faith delivered the letter denouncing the practice and his rationale.   Within the letter, interfaith signers urged Congress to reject bills that expanded child detention, like the Ryan compromise ...

WASHINGTON, DC – In concert with the National Day of Action for Children, faith leaders across traditions join the national outcry against families being separated at the U.S. border, the detention and prosecution of parents travelling with children, and documented acts of abuse by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

The discharge petition filed on May 9 by House Republicans would force a House vote on H.Res 744, bipartisan legislation that would allow for consideration of four drastically different immigration proposals (these bills look to be similar to those considered in the Senate in March). Res 744: Queen-of-the-Hill Rule H.Res. 774 brings H.R. 4760, the anti-immigrant, anti-family ...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, May 3, at 4:30, clergy, faith communities and immigrants took part in the national Jericho Walk, an annual silent, interfaith day of prayer and action held in communities to show solidarity with immigrant rights leaders who have been targeted for challenging deportation and detention policies. The walk is part of a ...