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Note: To download a copy of this letter, please click here. Dear President Trump and Members of Congress: We write as educators in support of the U.S. refugee resettlement program. Refugees are our students and their parents; our friends and fellow teachers; and valued members of our communities. Refugee children have suffered from stolen childhoods. They have endured ...

  Note: To download a copy of this letter, please click here.   Dear President Trump and Members of Congress:   We, the undersigned healthcare providers, write in support of the U.S. refugee resettlement program and urge you to keep the program robust and available for refugees from all countries and backgrounds that have no other options for safety than to ...

Note: To download a copy of this letter, please click here. Dear President Trump and Members of Congress,   As religious leaders from a variety of backgrounds, we are called by our sacred texts and faith traditions to love our neighbor, accompany the vulnerable, and welcome the sojourner. War, conflict and persecution have forced people to leave ...

Last week, the Michigan House Committee on Local Government passed HB 4105 and HB 4334, which together would prohibit local municipalities from passing “welcoming cities” policies, pressure state and local law enforcement to serve as immigration enforcement officers, encourage racial profiling, and punishes local police for adopting policies that limit cooperation between local law enforcement ...

Tomorrow (Thursday, May 17), the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will consider H.R. 2431, H.R. 2406, and H.R. 2407. Together, these bills would criminalize congregations and charities, force local police to serve as federal immigration enforcement officers, militarize a mass deportation force, expand mandatory and indefinite detention for children and families, and weaken protections for ...

Twice this year, President Trump tried to grind the refugee resettlement program to a halt, ban individuals from six Muslim majority countries, and reduce the number of refugees we welcome in the United States. As we face the worst displacement crisis in global history with over 21 million refugees, Trump issued two executive orders in ...

The Texas House Calendars Committee is considering HB 582, which would discriminate against our refugee, asylee, and legal permanent resident (LPR) immigrant neighbors by requiring them to provide a full set of fingerprints when applying for a driver’s license. HB 582 does not make communities or cities in Texas any safer, and serves only to ...

To download a copy of the letter, please click here. Honorable John F. Kelly Secretary Department of Homeland Security 3801 Nebraska Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20016 RE: Request to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti Dear Secretary Kelly: On behalf of the 168 undersigned national, state, and local faith-based organizations, as well as 248 faith leaders from across traditions, we respectfully request that ...

Background: As Congress makes decisions about refugee funding and responds to President Trump’s executive order impacting refugees, it is critical that our Senators and Representatives hear from us as constituents who care about refugees. While the executive order impacting refugees and Muslims is on hold due to a federal court order, it is likely that ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently apprehended, detained and deported Somali individuals back to their home country. These Somalis are asylum seekers, asylees, and refugees who have fled persecution and tragedy. In Georgia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended eight Somalis, detained them and put them into deportation proceedings. Some have been in ...