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URGENT ACTION NEEDED Urge Congress and the Administration to Protect our Immigrant Neighbors
February 12, 2018The Trump administration has been engaging in systematic attacks against our immigrant neighbors whom we pledged to protect. President Trump terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, turning our nation’s back on undocumented immigrant youth who are valued members of our communities. DACA has protected nearly 800,000 immigrant youth from deportation and allowed ...URGENT: TAKE ACTION TODAY! Tell Congress and the White House that you OPPOSE Pres. Trump’s Latest Refugee Ban
February 12, 2018President Trump has rewritten his executive order to: Ban refugees from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and stateless Palestinians for 90 days, in addition to the 120 day refugee ban that expired on October 24th. Indefinitely suspend the following to join process for refugees who have been separated from ...TAKE ACTION NOW: Protect Refugee Resettlement and Oppose the Ban
February 12, 2018On January 27, 2017 the Trump Administration released Executive Orders banning individuals from seven (then six) Muslim-majority countries and all refugees from entering the country. Thousands took to the streets and flooded airports where people from Muslim-majority countries and refugees were being detained and, in many cases, sent back. Since that time, the administration has ...Tell Congress to Enact the Dream Act of 2017 and Protect Immigrant Youth!
February 12, 2018President Trump terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, turning our nation’s back on undocumented immigrant youth who are valued members of our communities. The consequences of repealing DACA are immediate, devastating, and profound. No new DACA applications are being considered, and current DACA recipients are already seeing their protections revoked. DACA has ...TAKE ACTION TODAY: Urge the Administration to Extend TPS for El Salvador for at least 18 Months
February 12, 2018The deadline for DHS to decide whether to extend TPS for El Salvador is due January 8, 2018. Join us in urging the administration to extend El Salvador’s TPS designation for at least 18 months. El Salvador remains unable to adequately handle the safe return of nearly 200,000 Salvadoran TPS holders. In addition to continued acute ...TAKE ACTION TODAY: Urge Congress and DHS to Protect Haitian TPS Holders
February 12, 2018Last night, the Department of Homeland Security made the deeply disturbing decision to end TPS for Haitians, following the recent TPS terminations for Sudan and Nicaragua. A 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti, and since then subsequent natural disasters have marred Haiti’s recovery. Public health crises such as the cholera epidemic, in addition to food and housing ...URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Tell Congress and the Administration to Protect our Salvadoran Neighbors and Uphold Our American Values
February 12, 2018This morning, the Trump administration announced its decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador. This decision follows the administration’s recent announcements terminating TPS designations for Haiti, Sudan, and Nicaragua, as well as ending the Central American Minors (CAM) program that protected children fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and reunited them ...48 National Faith Organizations Support Immediate Solution for Dreamers, Reject White House Proposal
February 12, 2018here. February 11, 2018 Dear Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer: As 48 faith-based organizations from many traditions, we are called to love our neighbor and to welcome the stranger. We are heartbroken that more than one million immigrant youth are at risk of deportation and urge Congress to immediately pass a bipartisan pathway to citizenship that ...Faith Leaders Oppose Goodlatte Immigration Bill
January 30, 2018Read the full text of the letter with the full list of nearly eighty signers. Leaders from nine national, faith-based organizations also commented, urging members of Congress to reject the Goodlatte immigration and similar White House proposal. Instead they urged legislators to champion bipartisan efforts that include a pathway to citizenship for immigrant youth, protect family ...ONE YEAR OF MUSLIM AND REFUGEE BANS
January 16, 2018Showing Up in Solidarity Against Discrimination January 27 – February 3, 2018 Week of Action Toolkit Please click here (Word) and here (Google) to download the toolkit. PUT YOUR EVENT ON THE MAP & FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU AT www.nomuslimbanever.com and www.weareallusa.org/events Why take action the week of January 27th? On January 27, 2017 the Trump Administration released Executive Orders banning individuals from seven (then six) ...
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