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Faith Groups and Families Belong Together Attempt to Deliver a Quarter of a Million Signatures Demanding ICE Release Children with their Parents
July 17, 2020Washington, DC – The Interfaith Immigration Coalition and Families Belong Together rallied outside of ICE headquarters today to deliver over a quarter of a million signatures demanding ICE release all the families in its custody. The demonstrators held 260 paper dolls representing the 260 children in ICE detention facilities. After representatives from ICE refused to ...Unprecedented Defense to #SaveAsylum
July 15, 2020Washington, DC – While the Trump administration continues its all-out assault on the legal right to request asylum, lawyers, human rights groups, and faith-based organizations have mounted a formidable defense. This week alone, over 400 constituents from forty-five states and the District of Columbia are participating in virtual legislative visits with 185 congressional offices, calling on ...“People Will Die” Because of Latest Trump Asylum Ban
July 8, 2020Washington, DC – What do foreign students in the United States on visas, and people fleeing violence and seeking safety on U.S. soil have in common? They are both the subject of Trump administration attacks this week. The latest is another all-out assault on “asylum,” the legal right enshrined in U.S. and international law to NOT ...4,500 People of Faith Call for Senate Approval of DACA/TPS Bill
July 1, 2020Washington, DC – Around 10:30 AM today, Senator Richard Durbin will seek unanimous consent to pass the American Dream and Promise Act on the Senate floor. The bill, which cleared the House almost a year ago, would create a path to citizenship for people in the United States with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ...#DACABells4Justice Ring Out in 18 States Plus DC
June 25, 2020Washington, DC – This past Monday, #DACABells4Justice rang out in celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the administration’s unjust termination of DACA, in front of the court and all across the nation. A total of 1,638 faith partners in eighteen states and the District of Columbia signed up to ring bells for DACA ...Interfaith Immigration Coalition Unequivocally States that Black Lives Matter
June 19, 2020Washington, DC – Since its inception, the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) has held one truth: Our diverse faith traditions compel us to welcome one another with love and compassion, regardless of place of birth, religion, or race. Yet religious institutions, communities, and leaders have fallen short of this ideal, and are complicit in the systemic ...Faith Leaders Embrace Supreme Court DACA Decision
June 18, 2020Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s illegal cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Read quotes from DACA beneficiaries working for faith-based institutions here. To interview them or faith-based organizational leaders, contact Lynn Tramonte at media@interfaithimmigration.org. Following are additional quotes from faith leaders. “The Supreme Court’s decision ...DACA Recipients React to Supreme Court Case
June 18, 2020Washington, 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 ...World Refugee Day June 20th, 2020
June 17, 2020Faith 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 ...339 Faith-Based Groups and 1,356 Leaders Call for End to Anti-Immigrant “COVID” Policies
June 15, 2020Washington, 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 ...
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