Enforcement

“We have a renewed passion to love our neighbor, and to reject any powers that demonize and hurt them” – Reverend Steven S. Bryant Tougaloo, MS – Father Odel Medina of St. Anne Catholic Church in Carthage is scheduled to testify at the congressional field hearing on the Mississippi immigration raids, led by the House Committee ...

NCJW CEO Sheila Katz in The Forward, Just Ahead of Yom Kippur Washington, DC – In a new op-ed in The Forward, National Council on Jewish Women’s CEO, Sheila Katz, writes that “Yom Kippur is a time for the accounting of the soul—to own how we have been complacent, complicit, taken the easy way out.” On ...

Washington, DC – “Forty years ago, this system did not exist.” That’s the starting point of a new exposé on the rise (and rise) of civil immigration detention in the United States, published by The Guardian and the Marshall Project. Their deep analysis comes just ahead of a vital congressional hearing on “The Expansion and ...

Washington, DC – The Trump administration is raiding the budget of FEMA and other federal agencies (including Coast Guard and TSA) to fund its anti-immigrant agenda, while Hurricane Dorian barrels toward Florida and millions of people are considering evacuation. This is the second time this administration has used FEMA’s budget to pay for anti-immigration measures ...

Washington, DC – The Trump administration has alerted Congress that it is raiding the budgets of other federal programs, to dedicate even more money toward the mass incarceration of immigrants.  “The administration has made its immigration priorities very clear – more children, families, and refugees behind bars at whatever fiscal or moral cost. We condemn this, ...

Washington, DC – The Trump administration has abruptly, and with no notice, changed “deferred action” policy in a way that amounts to a “death sentence,” immigration lawyers report.  WBUR explains:  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) sent out letters saying the agency will no longer consider most deferrals of deportation for people with serious medical conditions, documents ...

Washington, DC – When Stephen Miller and acting USCIS Director Ken Cucinelli rewrote Emma Lazarus’ poem to try to justify their new “public charge” rule, legal experts and religious leaders loudly protested that the policy goes against moral and religious values. The true purpose of the “public charge” rule is to discourage immigrant parents from seeking ...

“The United States should be doing more to protect refugee children, not actively participating in their oppression” Washington, DC – Religious organizations and leaders of diverse faiths are universally outraged at the Trump administration’s latest attempt to harm immigrant children: gutting the Flores settlement agreement, a legal framework that has been in place to protect migrant ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2019 Contact: Bilal Askaryar | baskaryar@cwsglobal.org | 202-750-0960 Washington, DC – After months of warnings about the consequences from anti-poverty, nutrition, and other experts, the Trump administration is moving forward with new a “public charge” regulation that will turn every request for basic human needs into an immigration status check.  POLITICO reported that ...

Washington, DC – Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) Co-Chair Faith Williams is traveling to Ft. Sill, Oklahoma to join the Heartland for Human Justice Coalition’s protest of a potential immigrant detention center at this historic site. The protest and interfaith prayer vigil will take place on August 1.  Event details from the organizers: Women’s Voices Raised for Social ...