By Rebecca Jones | Filed Under Analysis | November 26, 2018 Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection As the U.S. immigration debate continues to ramp up in Washington, the Project On Government Oversight is responding by demanding accountability and transparency in immigration policy. Recently, POGO has … Continued
From the Project on Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org/): On November 9, in response to a large caravan of migrants from Central America slowly traveling through Mexico towards the U.S. border, President Donald Trump’s administration issued a proclamation seeking to forbid migrants … Continued
Este mensaje continuará en español From the Detention Watch Network (https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/): The past few weeks have served as a constant reminder of the extent this administration is willing to go in its push to silence, criminalize, and dehumanize immigrant communities. … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): PICC is hiring a Political Director! The Statewide Political Director will lead PICC’s efforts to increase the political power of immigrant and refugee communities to pass policies at the local and state … Continued
NOTE: The Council has signed on to this letter. 112 organizations all declare policy wrong and illegal. #FamiliesBelongTogether and #ParentTrap https://bit.ly/stop-parent-trap-dhs-hhs November 28, 2018 – The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University of Law, the Center on Privacy … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): This isn’t the America we want to see. Over the weekend, a group of people seeking asylum were tear gassed by American Customs and Border Protection at a border crossing in Tijuana. The group … Continued
From Juntos (http://vamosjuntos.org/): It was almost exactly a year ago that Juntos launched our Community Resistance Zone (CRZ) in the heart of South Philadelphia. We envisioned what a CRZ could be—an entire neighborhood that knew their rights and was committed … Continued
You can take one quick action to push back on two key issues impacting our immigrant and refugee families right now by signing this letter to Congressional leaders. Congress is making key decisions in the next few weeks about the … Continued
This is the Dilley Pro Bono Project’s collaboration with Amnesty International on a letter-writing campaign in support of release of the 37 mothers and 39 children still detained in Dilley after being separated and reunified. It takes less than a … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): On November 9, President Trump signed a proclamation that bans certain asylum seekers from seeking protection in the United States. This proclamation is cruel, unnecessary, and illegal. It has life or death consequences for families … Continued