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Stay up-to-date on Interfaith Immigration Coalition’s latest news. Keep informed on the members’ reactions to immigration reform efforts and our statements asking for reform.
Eight Years of DACA: The Fight Continues
June 12, 2020“The fight for justice for all immigrants is part of a larger racial justice movement that demands full equality and investments in the communities of Black people and communities of color” Washington, DC – Monday, June 15, marks eight years since President Barack Obama announced the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program ...Trump-Miller Asylum Rule Sides With the Persecutors
June 11, 2020“More People Will Die” Washington, DC – Yesterday the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security submitted a notice of proposed rulemaking to the Federal Register that proves these governmental bodies stand for neither justice nor safety. The proposed rule further guts the U.S. legal system of asylum and other protections for people who are fleeing violence and ...“We Pray for America to Change”
June 1, 2020Washington, DC – On Pentecost Sunday, speaking before an empty Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Rev. William J. Barber III offered this: We cannot try to hurry up and put the screams and the tears and the hurt back in the bottle, just to get back to some normal that was abnormal in the ...People of Faith to Trump Administration: Stop Abuse of Migrant Children
May 20, 2020Washington, DC – (TW: Abuse of children) The headlines are shocking enough: “More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy” – The New York Times “The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus” – ProPublica and Texas Tribune “Under Trump policy, U.S. plays custody keep-away with migrant children”- Los Angeles Times “ICE ...Denouncing Extension of Border Lockdown
May 15, 2020Washington, DC – The New York Times reports that the Trump administration plans to extend its border closure indefinitely, citing the coronavirus pandemic. The ban would keep regions in the north and south of the United States, whose economies rely on the dynamic flow of goods and people across borders, on lock down for the ...IIC Interrogates ICE’s Deadly COVID-19 “Response”
May 12, 2020Washington, DC – Tomorrow, House Democrats are holding a virtual roundtable on ICE’s deadly “response” to the COVID-19 pandemic. The forum will be live streamed at 12:30pm EST. Following the massive outbreaks of coronavirus in numerous ICE facilities across the nation, and the tragic deaths of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia and Oscar Lopez Acosta, an Ohio ...IIC Mourns the Death of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia
May 8, 2020Washington, DC – The Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) mourns the death of Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia and offers love, prayers, and solidarity to his family members and friends. Mr. Mejia died of COVID-19, which he contracted while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. San Diego Union-Tribune spoke with ...No Public Health Rationale to Ban Asylum Seekers
April 24, 2020Washington, DC – Yesterday, several faith-based organizations who work directly with immigrants and refugees submitted comments on an interim final rule promulgated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The rule, combined with an order also issued by the CDC, has blocked all asylum ...Trump’s Exploitation of COVID-19 Emergency a National Disgrace
April 21, 2020Washington, DC – In a late-night Tweet, President Trump made another major policy announcement that his aides are now scrambling to implement. It was not an announcement that the federal government would stop seizing PPE from the states and other nations. Not an announcement that the federal government would stop deporting people who test positive for ...Faith Leaders: Include Immigrants in COVID-19 Protection
April 20, 2020Washington, DC – Two hundred twenty-four faith-based organizations and over 1,000 faith leaders sent a letter to the Trump administration, Congress, and Governors, telling them that “immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers must be included in our emergency response if we are to assist everyone who is in need.” The organizations and individuals span ...
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