Civic Engagement

This 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 ...

here. 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 ...

Read 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 ...

Showing 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) ...

Apply here by January 5: http://cws.applicantstack.com/x/apply/a2h9xbo6ysmv   Communications Coordinator, Interfaith Immigration Coalition Position Title: Communications Coordinator, Interfaith Immigration Coalition Reports To: Co-Chairs of Interfaith Immigration Coalition Location: Washington, DC Team: Advocacy Team & Immigration and Refugee Program Team Status: Full time, Exempt, Non-Bargaining Unit Applications Due: COB Friday, January 5th, 2018 Church World Service (CWS) is a not-for-profit organization working to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around ...

November 7, 2017 Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned 37 faith-based organizations, write to urge members of Congress to offer Dreamers the same compassion and commitment they have given to this country. It is time for Congress to immediately enact the Dream Act of 2017 (S. 1615/H.R. 3440), which provides a long overdue pathway to citizenship ...

October 29-November 4 Advocating for the Dream Act (S. 1615 / H.R. 3440) is putting the faithful call to love our neighbors into action. Congress must hear from us this week and every week until Congress passes a clean Dream Act with a pathway to citizenship.   Plan Dream Sabbath Events Plan #Faith4Dream events to happen before or ...

Tell Congress & the White House that you OPPOSE Trump’s Latest Refugee Ban President 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 ...

On Thursday, October 26th, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is holding an oversight hearing on the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Refugee resettlement is a life-saving opportunity for individuals and families fleeing persecution to rebuild their lives in safety. Today, we face the worst displacement crisis in recorded history with more than 65 million ...

**Instructions below** This map highlights the 2017 DREAM Sabbath events around the country in support of the DREAM Act. The Interfaith Immigration Coalition invites people of all faiths to stand in solidarity with immigrant youth by organizing a Dream Sabbath, ideally before the end of October. The Dream Sabbath toolkit can be found here as a PDF and here ...